Quotes About Evolution

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily, but things change - nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you're always going to be legendary.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

It's a cycle, 20 years down the line, they will remix today's songs for the youth to listen to at that time.

America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.

I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.'

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.