Quotes About Self-preservation

I'm not selfish before a fight or afterwards, but for the time of the fight itself, I have to think totally of myself.

Like everybody else, I am naturally selfish, and so I'm going to think about myself.

Protect yourself at all times. It's what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I'm not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.

I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

The only way to avoid despair was not to involve himself at all.

Why I'm dolling myself up like this…" "You're putting on armor. You want to be strong.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I spent my life learning how to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Ik geloof dat je een enorm belang hecht aan geluk - van jezelf en anderen - en ongelukkig zijn zo bedreigend vindt dat je liever met het hele schip naar de kelder gaat dan toegeeft dat er een lek in zit.

Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.

I'm sorry, Mr. Whiteleaf. I'm not going to let a monster eat me for minimum wage.

Self-preservation was a basic directive, but there wasn't a robot functioning that prioritized it at the top of the list. Like biologicals all robots were seeking a purpose. Autos and drones were lucky enough to have that built into them. A bot had to find his own way and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless. The real question was finding a directive worth getting scrapped for.

There is a theory that bravery and intrepidness and extreme risk taking are all sorts of madness, and that only one person in 1,000 or 100,000 is born without the normal safety rail of self-preservation, the pressing need to turn around and go home when it's dark, cold and frightening.

Being the firstborn gives you great patience. But you reach a point where after trying and trying you say, Patience be damned. Let them suffer their distorted worldview. Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you know you owe them nothing.

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

The first thing you want to do after being shot is make sure you are not shot again.

Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Whenever human activity is directed exclusively to the service of the instinct for self-preservation it is called theft or usury, robbery or burglary etc

If the race is in danger of being oppressed or even exterminated the question of legality is only of secondary importance. The established power may in such a case employ only those means which are recognized as 'legal'. yet the instinct of self-preservation on the part of the oppressed will always justify, to the highest degree, the employment of all possible resources.

His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

Uncertainty cripples any serious and firm resolve and results in opinions swaying from one side to the other, leaving any decision that is made weak and half done, even when it comes to the most essential measures of self-preservation.

Cuando advenga un tiempo no más empañado por la sombra de esa mala conciencia de la propia culpabilidad, entonces el instinto de conservación de sí mismo creará la tranquilidad íntima, la fuerza exterior para poder actuar sin contemplaciones en la eliminación de los brotes dañinos de la mala hierba.