Quotes About Survival

We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.

Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.

I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.

With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.

There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.

I wanted to write something that reflected the violence and horror of the world, but I also wanted to reflect the way people fight to survive, even when society wants to crush them.

I love putting myself in sink-or-swim situations. You realize the human spirit is built to survive.

The physical and emotional qualifications to survive an apocalypse are naturally equalizing.

I came up seeing what a lot of young brothers see in this world, and you learn to deal with people with a long handle spoon in order to survive.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

I was lucky to have made it to 23 before my world fell apart, but when it did, I had no idea how to survive. It was a rough year. I cried - a lot. I complained - a lot. I also wrote - a lot.

One thing about the entertainment industry - it's not something that people need to survive.

In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.

'The Will To Survive' is a great track.

You have to realize that myself and others that have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, we've dealt with the situation. You realize that you're not going to survive in prison or progress as a human being if you allow yourself to continue to hold on to this negative energy.

I don't have any contracts, so I don't have to split any money up. That was my main thing - just making sure I'm taking care of myself and taking care of Lil B. Just learning to survive, for myself and as a human in America.

I love that feeling of being in a battle with the new ball, you're getting an opening batsman out while they are desperate to survive.

I don't have shame around where I've been or what I've done to survive to get to where I'm at in my life. When you don't have shame around something, it can't hurt you.

I never was in favor of doing this. No, no, no. I was never in favor of cursing on records and so forth. I wasn't brought up like that. But I needed to survive and make money and get me a piece of show business. So when I found I could hit with this, then I turned to it. And in order to turn to it, you must do it well.

Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.

I think my dad really wanted me to survive the world. He knew as a psychologist how difficult the world is, and I think he wanted me to be tough.

From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to survive. We fashion ourselves accordingly. And then, should that attention ever go away, it's only natural to do the same things we've always done, rely on what we've always relied on, in order to make it come back.

For me, basketball was always about survival because I was just trying to get out the hood, right? When I got to Chicago, I'm like, 'I'm just trying to survive, and anybody I got to step on or break, so be it.'

The first time I was paid was with 'The Lobster,' because with the Greek films, we just had to pay ourselves - work for free while making commercials in order to survive.