Quotes About Evolution

Best just to swallow back your tear, get accustomed to the minor sentimentals and shove off to whatever's next, not whatever was. Place means nothing.

Tony Lamas and fitted polo shirt. And that growing sense

Assuming you rise to the top, please remember: what made you great may not be appropriate for the next generation.

The United States was born in the country and has moved to the city.

reimagining your life is going to be messy.

Time changes the places that knew us, and if we go back after years, still even then it is not the same spot; the gate swings differently, new thatch has been put on the old gables, the road has been widened, and the sward the driven sheep lingered on has gone. (Wild Flowers)

Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The vision that said we would be angels.

Le progrès est toujours difficile à définir

It'll take a stronger kind of human to deal with it, but that's always been the case, with every major step in knowledge or technology that we take. You can't get by on past models, you have to keep moving forward, building better minds and bodies. Either that or the universe moves in like a swamp panther and eats you alive.

Remember that even if you have made a truly rotten piece of art, it may be a necessary stepping-stone to your next work. Art matures spasmodically and requires ugly-duckling growth stages.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. JAMES BALDWIN

I think that I need to learn a few different modalities of change: gradual and grounded like a seed growing and, too, when it is time to leap lest I be left hanging over a chasm clutching frantically to either side. In other words, I may need to listen to guidance about when to edge forward and when to leap forward. What clearly does not serve me is trying to meet every situation with an obdurate set mode.

Change is not made without inconvenience.   RICHARD HOOKER

Each painting has its own way of evolving. . . . When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. WILLIAM BAZIOTES

En términos cinematográficos lo que hacemos es ir cambiando el enfoque con lentitud, abriendo el objetivo y alejándonos de esa vida en la que estábamos estancados hasta alcanzar una perspectiva más amplia.

La vida verdadera se vive cuando ocurren cambios diminutos». LEÓN TOLSTOI

had been a year earlier. Looking back, it had been a year of growth. Paul's personality had enlarged, he'd gained further wisdom, if not salary

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it's giving way to something else.

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

History was repeating itself: the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy.

in this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age