Quotes About Evolution

Sometimes I'll present a work to the public and listen to the responses-then pull it back, shape it, and put it back out.

The status quo cannot work.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.

Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

All creativity is a work in progress.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.

Everything is a work-in-progress.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.