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Quotes About Evolution

As soon as the pegs were driven in and the game started, the man was transfigured. From his habitual, slow, ponderous, rather rigid self, he changed into a terrifically mobile, scampering, mute, sly-visaged hunchback.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The whole history of literary fiction as an evolutionary process may be said to be a gradual probing of deeper and deeper layers of life.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The artist, like the scientist, in the process of evolution of art and science, is always casting around, understanding a little more than his predecessor, penetrating further with a keener and more brilliant eye—and this is the artistic result.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense
~ Vladimir Nobokov
Shift from convergence to divergence
~ W. Chan Kim
Drawing a strategy canvas is never easy. Even identifying the key factors of competition is far from straightforward. As you will see, the final list is usually very different from the first draft
~ W. Chan Kim
Every blue ocean will eventually be imitated and turn red
~ W. Chan Kim
industry history shows, new market spaces are being created every day and are fluid with imagination.
~ W. Chan Kim
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing,--a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
~ lanier jaron
Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.
~ lanier jaron
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness
~ Lao Tzu
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~ Lao Tzu
I don't know how to be what you need, Leni, what you deserve. You make me want to be something I've never been before.
~ Lara Adrian
After what's happening right now around the world, my guess is history will soon be explained simply in terms of Before and After.
~ Lara Adrian
Virgin to father in zero to sixty
~ Larissa Ione
He might need to pull a new trick out of his bag of forgive me tactics. Weird. He'd always thought sex could fix everything Son of a bitch, he was growing as a person, wasn't he? And Shade said it would never happen. Asshole.
~ Larissa Ione
We don't think ourselves into a new way of acting, we act ourselves into a new way of thinking.
~ Larry Bossidy
There's a saying we recently heard: We don't think ourselves into a new way of acting, we act ourselves into a new way of thinking.
~ Larry Bossidy
The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.
~ Larry David
Obviously comedic styles do change.
~ Larry David
Transcendence as the only real alternative to extinction
~ Larry Dossey
First two cells to diddle each other's genes: 'I'm only doing this, Anita, because I want your descendants to be an improvement on you.' 'Egotist.
~ Larry Gonick
We were the generation psychoanalysts tried to change.
~ Larry Kramer