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Quotes About Evolution

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.
~ Thomas Friedman
The human worker will go the way of the horse.
~ Wassily Leontief
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
~ Joyce Grenfell
Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments
~ Anish Kapoor
Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.
~ Richard Blanco
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
~ Barbra Streisand
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
~ PJ Harvey
Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.
~ Jessica Alba
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
~ Clay Shirky
Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
~ Timothy Leary
When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
~ Chris Martin
We're all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I've had to work harder than most.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.
~ Chris Cornell
There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
~ Vinton Cerf
What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.
~ Bran Ferren
My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
~ Jeanne Moreau
The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
~ Ted Nelson
We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.
~ Donna Edwards
I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.
~ Janet Fish
Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.
~ Nick Kroll
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
~ Jasper Johns
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
~ Natasha Lyonne
He who moves not forward, goes backward.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
~ Robert Greene