Quotes About Survival

occasional starvation produces some health benefits and

Had it not been for the discovery of antibiotics, only a few decades earlier, I would not be here today.

Whenever your survival is in play, don't immediately look for causes and effects.

Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy.

I suspect that there would be a species for which our ethical rules would be relaxed or possibly lifted.

Crucially, if antifragility is the property of all those natural (and complex) systems that have survived, depriving these systems of volatility, randomness, and stressors will harm them.

The scientific association with a big idea, the "brand name," goes to the one who connects the dots, not the one who makes a casual observation—even Charles Darwin, who uncultured scientists claim "invented" the survival of the fittest, was not the first to mention it.

This point has applications in evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory, and conflict situations. A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situations of conflict.

Given that the window used for the calculation of patient survival is five years

Avoid calling heroes those who had no other choice.

é uma grande lenda acreditar que o planejamento ajuda as corporações: com efeito, vimos que o mundo é aleatório e imprevisível demais para que uma política seja baseada na visibilidade do futuro. O que sobrevive vem da interação entre alguma aptidão e as condições ambientais.

reality doesn't care about winning arguments: survival is what matters.

The bias lowers our perception of the risks we incurred in the past, particularly for those of us who were lucky to have survived them. Your

It was of course picked up through natural selection, survivorship, apprenticeship to experienced practitioners, and one's own experience.

The main identifiable reason for our survival of such diseases might simply be inaccessible to us: we are here since, Casanova-style, the "rosy" scenario played out, and if it seems too hard to understand it is because we are too brainwashed by notions of causality and we think that it is smarter to say because than to accept randomness.

He knew that he would either be fired or left alone. He was left alone.

Heroism and the respect it commands is a form of compensation by society for those who take risks for others. And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy. It is also necessarily collective on epistemological grounds—to facilitate the development of expertise.

So our mission in life becomes simply "how not to be a turkey

but in the absence of an owner, a dog does not survive.

A wolf is trained to survive.

to make money you must first survive

chess grandmasters usually win by not losing; people become rich by not going bust (particularly when others do);

To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it.

In the narrative of my life, which is the look backward rather than forward into the unknown and unstoried future, I emerged from the pool as from a baptismal font—changed, reborn—as if I had been shown what would be my calling even then. This is how the past fits into the narrative of our lives, gives meaning and purpose. Even my mother's death is redeemed in the story of my calling, made meaningful rather than merely senseless. It is the story I tell myself to survive.