Quotes About Evolution

I know in fashion what's new is old and trends repeat but the 90's trends ala '90210' aren't exactly styles I'd want to wear today.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.

Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

Evolution is a myth. God creates the future the way he wants it.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

God always wants us to be growing.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.