Top 1200 Survival Mode Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.

Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.

When I work, I work non-stop and so hard that I barely get time to see anything but the set and home. So whenever I am done with one show, I go into my globetrotter mode and just pick a place and disappear for a while.

Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible.

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.

The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

School is the same as producing: If you want to make it far, there are a million, trillion people trying to do the same thing. If you're not in over-grind mode, it's probably not going to work the way that you want it to.

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.