Quotes About Survival
Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Escaping animals usually hind in the very first place they find that gives them a sense of security, and they are dangerous only to those who happen to get between them and their reckoned safe spot.
~ Yann Martel
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In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season.
~ Yann Martel
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A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger.
~ Yann Martel
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Within the limits of their nature, they make do with what they have.
~ Yann Martel
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Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something. Something within their territory has frightened them - the intrusion of an enemy, the assault of a dominant animal, a startling noise - and set off a flight reaction.... Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown.
~ Yann Martel
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Self Preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago on 1/2/09. I was told by my mother that sometimes bad things happen to good people. I refuse to accept that.
~ Unknown
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In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody—in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"—the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.
~ Christopher Lasch
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The poor have always had to live for the present, but now a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class as well.
~ Christopher Lasch
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O ''crescimento'' tornou-se um eufemismo para a sobrevivência.
~ Christopher Lasch
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We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are — they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast — Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
~ Christopher McDougall
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We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
~ Christopher McDougall
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You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because we run
~ Christopher McDougall
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Patience and kindness don't show up on demand; they're disciplines that require constant practice, and there is no better boot camp for learning those skills than hitching your survival to your ability to discern—and respect—the needs of another creature
~ Christopher McDougall
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Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else.
~ Christopher McDougall
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It's a natural law (or supernatural, if you're so inclined) that weird things appear where people tend to disappear. African jungles, Pacific islands, Himalayan wastelands—wherever expeditionary parties go missing, that's where lost species, Stonehengey stone idols, the flitting shadows of yetis, and ancient, unsurrendering Japanese soldiers are sure to pop up. The
~ Christopher McDougall
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You've got this fancy machine, and it's controlled by a pilot who's thinking, 'Okay, how can I run this baby without using any fuel?' You and I know how good running feels because we've made a habit of it." But lose the habit, and the loudest voice in your ear is your ancient survival instinct urging you to relax.
~ Christopher McDougall
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if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can't pant while they gallop.
~ Christopher McDougall
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V?šina lidí se domnívá, že neandertálci byli našimi p?edky, ve skute?nosti to však byl paralelní druh (lépe ?e?eno poddruh), který s Homo sapiens sout?žil o p?ežití. Výraz "sout?žil" je k nám p?itom pom?rn? laskavý, protože neandertálci nás p?ed?ili tak?ka ve všem. Byli siln?jší, vytrvalejší a pravd?podobn? také chyt?ejší.
~ Christopher McDougall
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When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival;
~ Christopher McDougall
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Darwin's great gift to science was simplifying all life to pure mathematics: your one and only goal on earth is multiplication. Everything you do, every instinct you have, is an evolutionary urge to make babies and leave behind as many copies of yourself as possible. From that perspective, heroism makes no sense. Why risk the grave for someone else if there's no guarantee of a biological payoff? Dying for your own kids: smart. Dying for a rival's? Genetic suicide.
~ Christopher McDougall
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slova p?ipisovaná Rogeru Bannisterovi... :"Každý den ráno se v Africe probudí gazela a ví, že musí b?žet rychleji než nejrychlejší lev, jinak zahyne. Každé ráno se v Africe probudí lev a ví, že musí b?hat rychleji než nejpomalejší gazela, jinak bude mít hlad. Je jedno, jestli jste lev nebo gazela - jakmile vyjde slunce, m?li byste utíkat.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Once you learn to think like another creature, you can anticipate what it will do and react before it ever acts. If that sounds a little Hollywood, then you've seen your share of movies about impossibly clairvoyant FBI profilers who can "see with the eyes of the killer." But out there on the Kalahari plains, mind-throwing was a very real and potentially deadly talent.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up," Bannister said. "It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle— when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
~ Christopher McDougall
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