Frank Lowy Quotes

Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

When your back is against the wall, your brain has to function at a high level.

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

No crisis has proved too great for American ability, ingenuity, and courage.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.

Mr President: When it rains it pours but most Americans hold their own umbrellas.

Human beings will make the best out of any situation.

Power shifts your thinking from what is right and wrong to what is necessary

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down. If you don't solve the right problem at the right time, that's the end. Mortality puts priorities into sharp focus.

It seems that whenever America faced a challenge, it faced it and overcame it.

I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

Survival is very powerful. All your faculties want to cling to life. We're not tested usually, luckily, but when we are, we become superheroes.