Top 35 Survival Mechanism Quotes
#1. Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.
Frederick Lenz
#2. What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.
Frederick Lenz
#3. I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
Andy Dick
#4. Funny how easily we forget the good times while the nightmares haunt us. Guess that's a survival mechanism. We're not here to be happy; we're just here to be here. I
Hugh Howey
#5. I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.
Naomi Watts
#6. The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.
Chris Hardwick
#7. As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
Linda Vester
#8. No one ever thinks they're awful, even people who really actually are. It's some sort of survival mechanism.
Emily St. John Mandel
#9. Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.
David Byrne
#10. I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person.
Assata Shakur
#11. It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. If life is really as purposeless, unfair, and uncontrollable ... ,then life is simply too terrifying to be managed. So we search for a redemptive narrative ... That search is a survival mechanism.
Amanda Ripley
#13. Fantasy isn't about escape; it's a survival mechanism. It's a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected because it's a very fragile thing and without it, we're so defenseless, we're paralyzed.
The Martian Child David Gerrold
#14. The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures ... as a survival mechanism ... the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.
David Duke
#15. When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.
Tim Cahill
#16. Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds ... flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
Ann Zwinger
#17. Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.
Jane Fonda
#18. Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.
Zack Love
#19. After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.
Jerome Kagan
#20. Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
Monica Raymund
#21. Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival ... It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
Declan Donnellan
#22. Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
David Perlmutter
#23. We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.
Martin Milner
#25. The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.
Julian Barnes
#26. Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.
Robert A. Heinlein
#27. No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#28. Every little dirty thing you're thinking and more.
Abigail Roux
#29. Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
Jim Butcher
#30. Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
William Ralph Inge
#31. Bob had a dog buscuit stuck to his head. "How does he always get food stuck to him?" I asked Morelli.
"I don't know," Morelli said. "It's a Bob mystery. I think stuff falls out of his mouth and he rolls in it. I'm not sure."
-Morelli And Stephanie
Janet Evanovich
#32. I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.
Harmon Killebrew
#33. Groat and penny are the smallest coins, worth the least, and what's worse, they chose the names themselves.
George R R Martin
#34. I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!
Keith Emerson
