"There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic."

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Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta

Barbara Demick

#Optimistic Quotes #Survival Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.”
“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”
“Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal ... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“I don't have concussion problems. I have got a problem with people giving me traumatic blows to the head, that's what I have got a problem with.”
“Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.”

Source : Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org
“In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.”
“The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.”

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