Quotes About Survival

A person, product, or brand that can help us survive or thrive activates a survival mechanism within us that piques our curiosity.

Human beings collect physical, emotional, and social resources that help them survive in the world.

The point is this: if you don't tell somebody how you can help them survive, they will set you aside—or worse, discard you.

among the million things the brain is good at, the overriding function of the brain is to help an individual survive and thrive.

the point is this: to pique somebody's curiosity, you must associate your products with something that will help them survive.

CHOOSE A DESIRE RELEVANT TO THEIR SURVIVAL

Because our brains don't need to know how many chairs there are in the room to survive, but knowing where the exits are would be helpful in case there was a fire.

All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual.

Acumular recursos. Si los productos y servicios que ofreces ayudan a la gente a hacer dinero o acumular recursos que le son muy necesarios, eso tiene una rápida traducción en el deseo de supervivencia de la persona.

He highlighted the aspects of his course that would help parents survive and thrive

El deseo innato de ser generoso. Ninguno de los deseos que he mencionado es malo. También es verdad que todos pueden potencialmente llevarse demasiado lejos, pero el hecho es que estamos diseñados para sobrevivir. Ahora bien, debiera consolarnos saber que la mayoría de los seres humanos tenemos un potencial tremendo para la generosidad.

La verdad es que no estamos únicamente interesados en nuestra propia supervivencia; también nos interesa la supervivencia de los demás, sobre todo de quienes no han tenido las mismas oportunidades que nosotros.

La gente siempre elegirá una historia que la ayude a sobrevivir y prosperar.

our customers don't care. Why? Because that information isn't helping them eat, drink, find a mate, fall in love, build a tribe, experience a deeper sense of meaning, or stockpile weapons in case barbarians start coming over the hill behind our cul-de-sac.

All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual. A story about anything else won't work to captivate an audience.

This means that if we position our products and services as anything but an aid in helping people survive, thrive, be accepted, find love, achieve an aspirational identity, or bond with a tribe that will defend them physically and socially, good luck selling anything to anybody.

The key is to make your company's message about something that helps the customer survive and to do so in such a way that they can understand it without burning too many calories.

A story doesn't really pick up until the hero needs to disarm a bomb, win someone's heart, defeat a villain, or fight for their emotional or physical survival.

People will always choose a story that helps them survive and thrive.

If you work with only your body, all you'll do is work for enough to eat.

There had been nights in the desert where I was so sick with laughter, convulsed and doubled over with aching stomach for hours on end, I would happily have thrown myself in front of a car to make it stop.

Because, here's the truth: life is catastrophe.

What if there was a disease in Alexandria, she thought, and everybody died but me? I'd go live at the library, she told herself. The notion was cheering. She saw herself reading by candlelight, shadows flickering on the ceiling above the labyrinth of shelves. She could take a suitcase from home–peanut butter and crackers, a blanket, a change of clothes–and pull together two of the big armchairs in the Reading Room to sleep on…

It never occurred to me that half of the population of Vermont wasn't experiencing pretty much what I put myself through every night- bone-crackling cold that made my joints ache, cold so relentless I felt it in my dreams: ice floes, lost expeditions, the lights of search planes swinging over whitecaps as I floundered alone Arctic Seas.