Quotes About Evolution

Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Successfully orchestrating a lot of little changes lays the foundation for big changes when they are needed.

Make as many small, positive changes as you can. Build up that change account. Then, if you negotiate a big change and it goes badly, you will have some resources in the change bank to draw from.

You can not become successful, until you develop into the person who can."

I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

the pattern of error begetting error becomes true and deadly.

growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

to incrementally condense the external manifestation of the technique, while keeping true to its essence. Over time, expansiveness decreases, while potency increases. I call this method 'making smaller circles.

The key was to roll with the evolving situation, and contour new tactics around the principles we had discovered back home…if you have a solid foundation, you should be fine. Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

study of numbers to leave numbers, or form to leave form

the study of numbers to leave numbers, or form to leave form

Brilliant creations are often born of small errors.

Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt, but I didn't mind.

The things that happen to me just make me more me.

Life is like the sea. There are ebbs and flows to it, and change is inevitable.

to renew a conflict is to acculturate.

But the past doesn't have to be the future. That's the point of something you aspire to.

I swore never to use the emoticon ever… until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first :) and, shortly thereafter, in spite of my initial resistance, :) became a regular staple of my daily correspondence

Technology would never advance past primal fear. It would never trump human instinct.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.