This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just - I was blinded. I wasn't healthy enough to be able to learn more. I had one mode - to fight.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap
Growing up in the Philippines, I wanted to be so much like my dad. He taught me simple survival stuff.
The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.
I deal with body dysmorphia a lot, so it's always a process to see and hear myself on camera. I have to be in the right mental mode to not be hyper-critical of myself.
I shot part of 'Resurrecting the Champ' in Denver, and I spent a summer going to survival school in Colorado Springs.
The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for their loyalty to the state was to offer the latter a small piece of the pie.
Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.
We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.
Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.
It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.
I think looking at the front row of a Chvrches show is really diverse. It could be 50-year-old dudes who love Depeche Mode or teenagers or teenage girls and their dad.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
The key to long-term survival and prosperity has a lot to do with the money management techniques incorporated into the technical system.
More pro-active Vatican communications might be able to do something about all this, but when the Holy See is constantly in the mode of, "No, what the pope really meant was . . . ," the game has already been largely forfeited.
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.
Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.
Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So we must solve this problem in order to become a space-faring civilization.
My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.
And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.
The teams that use tanking as a strategy are doing damage. If you're in tanking mode, that means you've got young players who you're teaching bad habits to. I think that's unforgivable.
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
I've built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.
The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
'The Dovekeepers' is a compelling, beautifully written novel that combines history and fiction into a timeless story of survival and heroism.
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable.
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
Every time I'm in training mode, I've had to monitor what I'm eating. I'll break 210 and be around 215 pounds. I know what it takes to compete with the best guys at 205. I've trained with them.
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes.
For me, a car is a mode of transport - a reliable way to get from A to B. Comfort is important. And it's very important to fit my friends and be able to go on a road trip.
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.
...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)
The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells.
Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.
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