Denise Mina Quotes

The fittest of the fittest shall survive !

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

I'm a journalism junkie.

I love journalism.

Journalism is not writing.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

You adapt, evolve, compete or die.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Great questions make great reporting.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.