Quotes About Evolution

The way I see it," Menshiki said, "there's a point in everybody's life where they need a major transformation. And when that time comes you have to grab it by the tail. Grab it hard, and never let go.

When a vacuum forms, someting has to come along to fill it. Because that's what everybody does.

That's right," Kafuku said. "Whether you want to or not. But the place you return to is always slightly different from the place you left. That's the rule. It can never be exactly the same.

People grow up, and when they grow up they change/

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither if us know anything substantial about the other.

You slowly but surely become a has-been.

The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back again.

Becoming a different person might be hard, but taking on a different name is a cinch.

People are in constant motion, never stationary. No one knows what will happen next.

After a certain length of time has passed, things harden up. Like cement hardening in a bucket. And we can't go back anymore.

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

This was the second stage in my life, a step in my personal evolution--abandoning the idea of being different, and settling for normal... Gradually I drew nearer to the world, and the world drew nearer to me.

If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose—to transmit DNA—be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?

The most dramatic change will be the marketing department's reinvention as a "customer department." The first order of business is to replace the traditional CMO with a new type of leader—a chief customer officer. The

EVERY MAJOR INDUSTRY WAS once a growth industry.

In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It's never unscathed.

Menopause isn't Cocoon. Sorry.

Either way, modernity is doing something to us at a deeply fundamental level, and the fact that we don't understand it is alarming.

Keep an eye out for other things that we moderns might be trying to rid ourselves of without sufficiently understanding their function—not only Chesterton's organs, but his gods and his breast milk, his cuisine and his play.

All life began underneath the ocean. So I'm giving people a taste of what existence might have been like before civilization.' 'But we were amoebas and tiny shrimplike creatures. We didn't start off in deep-sea-diving outfits.' 'We all come into this world with an oxygen tube in our belly button.' 'True.' She put her hands up to her own belly. There had so recently been a sea creature evolving in there, trying its best to get its act together. It had perished under the deep, deep, deep sea.

Despite the crapehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.

Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.

The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.