Quotes About Evolution

One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems. We also have, in a way that is not true for any other species, a relationship to the planet as a whole and to the future. We live with all life.

Get something to improve yourself at least 1% each day

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past. 

Predicting the long-term economics of companies that operate in fast-changing industries is simply far beyond our perimeter.

These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we're not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don't have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have.

We are as gods on our little rock in the vast bleak cosmos and it's way past time we started getting good at that instead of just posing on Olympus and photoshopping our zits out. The future is more than an Instagram filter.

an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.

The near future? Pop will go down into the tube station at midnight and have sex. Lots of sex. And all those genres I listed earlier? Every single year will generate a list of new genres like that. Then every six months. Then every month. Then every week. Pop will fuck and mutate and survive. The new sounds will be everywhere, in too many places for us to notice them all at once. A million glorious bursts of incoherent noise.

Because of the invisibility of any environment during the period of its innovation, man is only consciously aware of the environment that has preceded it; in other words, an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.

That's how the future always arrives: you don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. —ALDOUS HUXLEY

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

You don't have to be attached to what you've been. What you've been is just the choices that you made once upon a time, and you always have the power to change your mind.

All things are in motion and nothing is at rest. … You cannot go into the same [river] twice.

In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Literary Ethics in 1838, Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning anecdote, all flock to their aid. What a beautiful thought. Stay with tradition and you ensure that you'll always be the same, but toss it aside, and the world is yours to use as creatively as you choose.