Quotes About Evolution

Change is movement confined to the outer plane of experience, while transformation is movement on the inner plane, to which the outer plane responds spontaneously.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

How far I've come! I'm the same girl, yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person to another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

Becoming is better than being." The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.

a genius who constantly wants to upgrade his genius.

I was intensely curious because Cézanne is one of my favorite artists and the man who set the stage for much of modern art. Here's what I found: Some of the paintings were pretty bad. They were overwrought scenes, some violent, with amateurishly painted people. Although there were some paintings that foreshadowed the later Cézanne, many did not. Was the early Cézanne not talented? Or did it just take time for Cézanne to become Cézanne?

it's not about immediate perfection. It's about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.

Lo que aprendió fue que la auténtica confianza en uno mismo es «el valor de estar abierto, de darle la bienvenida a los cambios y a las nuevas ideas, independientemente de donde vengan».

They don't talk royalty. They talk journey. An inclusive, learning-filled, rollicking journey.

everyone can change and grow through application and experience.

Every lapse doesn't spell doom. It's like anything else in the growth mindset. It's a reminder that you're an unfinished human being and a clue to how to do it better next time.

There are many myths about ability and achievement, especially about the lone, brilliant person suddenly producing amazing things. Yet Darwin's masterwork, The Origin of Species, took years of teamwork in the field, hundreds of discussions with colleagues and mentors, several preliminary drafts, and half a lifetime of dedication before it reached fruition.

En lugar de dejar que la experiencia fuera la que lo definiese, la canalizó y la utilizó para convertirse en un mejor jugador y en una mejor persona.

Benjamin Barber, an eminent political theorist, once said, "I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures….I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.

Obviously, a company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.

The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals

It is a lesson for all ages: the importance of seeing mistakes not as personal failings to be denied or justified but as inevitable aspects of life that help us improve our work, make better decisions, grow, and grow up.

I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday. —Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1948

To show how memory changes to fit our story, psychologists study how memories evolve over time: if your memories of the same people change, becoming positive or negative spending on what is happening in your life now, then it's all about you, not them. This process happens so gradually that it can be a jolt to realize you ever felt differently.

Change is one of my favourite words.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations." —Paul Valery

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