Quotes About Evolution

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.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass, and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs - as who has not? - of human love, God's love alone is left.

People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submerged by a reality that they cannot articulate.

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective, to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.

But, you can't just go on being a brick stonewall forever.' 'I don't see why not,' she said. 'Nor do I see how not.

Everything was as it had been between us and at the same time everything was different.

The world will change, because it has to change.

All men, clearly, are primitive, but it can be doubted that that all men are primitive in the same way

lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.

technology is important—you can't remain a laggard and hope to be great. But technology by itself is never a primary cause of either greatness or decline.

Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to.

Truly great companies understand the difference between what should never change and what should be open for change, between what is genuinely sacred and what is not.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

One of the distinguishing characteristics of a great company is that it doesn't stop trying to change, improve, and do new things. A great company never arrives, never believes that it is good enough.

purposeful evolution.

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great. Technology can accelerate a transformation, but technology cannot cause a transformation.

Enduring great companies preserve their core values and purpose while their business strategies and operating practices endlessly adapt to a changing world. This is the magical combination of "preserve the core and stimulate progress.

it is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

the world is changing, and will continue to do so. But that does not mean we should stop the search for timeless principles.

transformations never happened in one fell swoop. There was no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no miracle moment. Rather, the process resembled relentlessly pushing a giant heavy flywheel in one direction, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond.

nella maggior parte degli ambienti non c'era motivo che un raccoglitore passasse all'agricoltura se non costretto dalla pressione demografica o da qualche forma di coercizione.

noi siamo un prodotto dell'auto-addomesticazione, intenzionale o meno, tanto quanto le altre specie della domus sono prodotti dell'addomesticazione da parte nostra.

Non è un'esagerazione dire che la caccia e la raccolta sono, in termini di complessità, tanto differenti dalla coltivazione dei cereali quanto la coltivazione dei cereali è, a sua volta, distante dal lavoro ripetitivo di una moderna catena di montaggio. Ogni passo rappresenta una sostanziale riduzione degli obiettivi e una semplificazione dei compiti.