Quotes About Evolution

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

My day-to-day life changes; I don't have any standard day.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.

In fad standard time, a day is a month, and a fad that lasts two months is a classic.

Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Conceivably, blockchains could rely on a number of standards above the Internet's existing standards to allow a smooth bridging from one layer to another. That would be a breakthrough.

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played 'Gingerbread Boy' 'cos he and Jimmy Heath were cool, you know? That's how the culture goes.

We want to show all of our customers that the industry standards that we had been employing before - which are considered great standards - were not good enough.

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.