Quotes About Evolution

Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

What's great about the play 'Pygmalion' is that it's sort of two plays. It's the one simple trajectory of girl bettering herself. It's a bet; it's a dare. Will they get away with it? Basic seed: boom. And then it goes into a different direction.

The trajectory of most movies is that you start off writing a sensitive movie about a couple in their 40's getting divorced, and then, three years later, you look at each other on set while you're making a film about lesbian cheerleaders. You're like, 'How did that happen?!'

For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.

The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.

If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

And I always try to make a clean, honest, product and ideas for people to get into that can transcend time. Like the Dougie.

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

I think a great athlete transcends eras.

I played so long ago, I don't think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don't think they knew anything about it.

That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

Coming from 'V' into 'Homeland' was a really big change and the best gift as an actor you can get - which is to transform so drastically from one genre to the next, from lizard to human being!