Quotes About Evolution

Así comenzó todo: unos simios corrientes asomándose sobre la hierba.

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroyes God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat Man...Woman inherits the earth.

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.

I reminded myself our lives are made of changes we can't control. Letting little things happen is a good practice.

a business that 'gets small again' is a business reduced to the level of its owner's personal resistance to change, to its owner's Comfort Zone

In short, businesses that 'get small again' die.

No hay buenas respuestas que duren para siempre.

The machine does much of what we used to do. The machine thinks for us. The machine has become, instead of a tool, the replacement of our minds. Use it (our minds) or lose it has become a reality today. And, since we are less inclined to use it, we are most definitely losing it. Our power to think is being rapidly deteriorated.

you'll know that your business is destined to grow, and that once it does your job is going to be significantly different. For now, that's all you need.

Drastic change creates an estrangement from the self, and generates a need for a new birth of a new identity.

The House of Change... is bigger inside than out.

Para ellos no puede cambiar nada, porque ellos mismos no pueden ya cambiar.

Like all true transformations, it was as slow and gentle as the growth of a plant.

Nic se neztrácí, vÅ¡echno se prom??uje.

This is an industry that no longer reflects strategically how to create value in the face of disruptive change.

Officially, the complexion of the problem had changed (too many people were getting killed, for one thing), and the romance of spooking started to fall away like dead meat from a bone. As sure as heat rises, their time was over.

To maintain an open mind about the future, it is very useful to keep an open mind about the past.

But how many people lighted the path for me? That's the evolution of basketball. There's no way I could have played the way I played if I didn't watch David Thompson and guys prior to me. There's no way Kobe could have played the way he's played without watching me play. So, you know, that's the evolution of basketball. You cannot change that.

Even as recently as 10,000 years ago humankind had spread to and over every habitable continent on Earth, including New Zealand's nearest neighbour, Australia. And this occupation and colonisation had major effects on the subsequent evolution of plants, animals and land forms. But not in New Zealand. In New Zealand, as an early geographer put it, 'a land without people waited for a people without land'.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

The expression "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" actually isn't usually true for human beings. It is for bacteria, however.