Quotes About Evolution

We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which are very slow.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

At different times in your life, your body needs different things.

There's an idea that, 'Oh, the more technology you have, or the more you modify your body, the less human you are.' I think that's super gross, and inaccurate, and also offensive to anybody who relies on technology to live.

Your body is an amazing machine that adapts to just about anything. If you're constantly changing what your body needs to adapt to, it's amazing what your body can do.

They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms.

Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.

I think it is important to keep redefining yourself as an actor with the roles you do and, at the same time, create diversity in your body of work.

As you evolve, you learn that wrestling is not necessarily about stunts or spots. You need to go out and show the audience that they can love you for the persona you are - not because of the risk you're willing to take or the jeopardy you're willing to put your body in.

There is no rule on how your child will grow, and there will be a surprise on daily basis.

Your dreams, ambition and experiences are creating a new person in you every day.

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.

People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

After a song comes out, it doesn't remain yours.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.