Quotes About Evolution

Katsuya J?nouchi: If I take that card [the Red-Eyes Black Dragon]...I feel like I'll just get farther from being the true duelist I'm trying to become. That Red-Eyes Black Dragon means more to me than any card in the world. It's been my fighting partner for ages! But I've leaned on it for too long! If I accept that card, I won't grow as a fighter! Not just that...The way I am right now...the card won't want me to have it!

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

The time has come for the greatest revolution of all times.

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.

If a person is riding at all he is already doing more right than wrong. The job is to add to those correct actions and drop the incorrect. Do you do this? You

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." —Winston Churchill Changes

Competitive edge in the industrial era was won by constantly reengineering process and systems. Today it's won by improving relationships.

The future is dynamic and not fully in your control. Celebrate that fact instead of fighting it, and life gets a lot more interesting.

among the failed startups, 80 percent never managed to innovate beyond their original vision for their companies. Among the successful startups, however, two-thirds had found success by discarding whatever founding vision had gotten them funded, because trial and error had led them to a new vision of success.

The most exciting breakthrough of the twenty-first century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human," said the futurist John Naisbitt.

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

I am becoming very hard on the outside and even softer on the inside.

Nothing is an end because it always can be a basis for something new and different.

People, I realize, cannot live like a patch of grass. They could, I suppose, at one time, but we are so far removed from that time that it is hard to conceive. People can, however, live their lives with the realization that they are constantly changing, products of their changing environment and changing situations, and time. They can live, at least, in harmony with the knowledge and co-exist with it instead of working against it.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

The reason companies lose relevance, go broke, or fade into the sunset is because they continue to grow, but fail to evolve.

Il poter cambiare la nostra natura, non è esattamente questo ciò che ci distingue dagli animali?

was a very important distinction in the '60s. Either you were blues and jazz or you were rock and roll, but rock and roll had died and gone pop—nothing left in it.

We never realized just what the scale of this thing would become. How did it get so big when we're not doing anything much different than what we did in 1963 in the Crawdaddy Club? Our usual set list is two-thirds standard Stones numbers, the classics. The only thing that's different is the audiences have grown and the show's gotten longer.