Quotes About Evolution

There was a time when melody was the most important feature in any song. But with time, music underwent a major transition.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

Every market is in transition.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins.

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?

We are the transition from one education to the other.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.

Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition?

Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting. In the social enterprise movement, we see companies whose essence, the products they make, the reason they exist from day one, is because these people see something out in the world that they cannot accept.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.

There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.