“I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.” PeopleRomanceMotivationFourJudgingSurvivalMovedRecognitionCombination Author:Jack White
“Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.” WorldHumansBrainSurvivalMachinesMethodPatternsRecognitionSignalsNoisyAdept Author:Michael Shermer
“There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels have economic value as well as obvious value for our health and our well-being and our survival. In fact, as you know, the economic revolution in renewable fuels has been impressive. It really had not been anticipated.” ValuesEconomyEconomicDangerousRevolutionSurvivalObviousRecognitionImpressive Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.” IfsRealitySpiritualDependsSurvivalIllusionRecognition Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.” MeanSelfStatesAblePurposeValuesIndividualLevelsVisionDemocracySacrificePersonalitySurvivalDemocraticSatisfiedDevotionRecognitionRelyDictatorSooner Or LaterCravingSelf SacrificeDemocratic SocietyRely UponEnlargementTotalitarian StateIndividual Personality Author:Ordway Tead
“Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.” PeopleIfsKnowsHumansActionOur LivesDivineTheoryDependsTruth IsCreatingSurvivalReflectionRecognitionLiberationAppropriateEnteringUntruthHuman Actions Author:James H. Cone
“We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for something far beyond the material satisfaction. Find your place in history this Thanksgiving by stretching beyond your table. Celebrate your survival by offering peace and sharing with your neighbors. Make the shift from in illogical feeling of lack to the recognition of abundance. Invite the Spirit to your feast, and prepare to feed the world.” WorldFeelsEnoughFeelingsSpiritMaterialsSurvivalTablesSatisfactionNeighborCelebrateSymbolsRecognitionAbundanceInvitesOfferingThanksgivingStretchingPilgrimDissatisfiedIllogical Author:Jennifer James
“But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.” ImaginationStrugglePossibilitySurvivalMereRecognitionRadicalImpatientStruggle For Survival Author:Adrienne Rich