“Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.” WorldAgeTodayTurnsToo MuchDemandSurvivalConstantSmellSensesPrimitiveUrbanTurn OffAlertnessUrban Life Author:Carole Katchen
“You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.” WantDreamPastCompanyToo MuchFutureProtectSurvivalConcernConcernedLongingDuesExtinctionProtect Yourself Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.” HumansHappensLife IsEasyAnimalToo MuchDevelopmentEatingSurvivalCapacityIncrediblesComplicatedHuman LifeComparisonGiftedReplicationNothing Is Easy Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.” PeopleWorldWayCountryEnoughDiesPoorLeaderPovertyToo MuchFailingCostSurvivalTradeBasicsEnding PovertyPoor Countries Author:Edward de Bono
“I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.” ShouldLooksLittlesHelpingDreamHandsAttentionMistakeToo MuchWorstSurvivalShipsPay AttentionRescueIdleRescue MeCastawayStop Hoping Author:Yann Martel
“She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.” HeartStillsFeelingsToo MuchSkillsSurvivalProofBlockSurvival Skills Book:Shadow Bound Source: Shadow Bound
“While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.” WayLittlesMightNightToo MuchDemandOfficeSurvivalStrategyMeetingsFormerFulfillmentLatterSatisfyingEngagementClassroomCompliancePersonal FulfillmentComplying Book:Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.” FeelsMayRealityTodayHistoryToo MuchTomorrowProveSurvivalIllusionYesterdayCounting Author:Luigi Pirandello
“In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.” LooksRealSuccessScienceOpportunitySidesCan DoLinesDarkSuccessfulToo MuchGrowingFieldsColorFameSurvivalResearchFortuneRejoiceImaginaryConsideringUnlimitedDark SideExplorersMorbidBroodingSurvival Of The FittestUnexploredMoroseDespondent Author:George Washington Carver
“The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.” DiesWaterToo MuchSurvivalIrony Author:Cody Lundin
“Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water. Don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.” WaterLosesToo MuchFeetTearsSurvivalGuidesDisasterPairsCombatBootsTireFluidPumpsCombat Boots Author:Max Brooks