Quotes About Evolution

You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: "An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'"

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.