Quotes About Evolution

With the passage of time, the psychology of people stays the same, but the tools and objects in the world change.

Skeuomorphic is the technical term for incorporating old, familiar ideas into new technologies, even though they no longer play a functional role. Skeuomorphic designs are often comfortable for traditionalists, and indeed the history of technology shows that new technologies and materials often slavishly imitate the old for no apparent reason except that is what people know how to do. Early

One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old. This practice is decried by design purists, but in fact, it has its benefits in easing the transition from the old to the new. It

When a new way of doing things is vastly superior to another, then the merits of change outweigh the difficulty of change. Just because something is different does not mean it is bad. If we only kept to the old, we could never improve.

Even if the first versions of a product are well done, human-centered, and focused upon real needs, it is the rare organization that is content to let a good product stay untouched.

Science now knows that evolutionarily more advanced animals are more emotional than primitive ones, the human being the most emotional of all. Moreover, emotions play a critical role in daily lives, helping assess situations as good or bad, safe or dangerous.

But, in fact, the ready distractibility of attention is a biological necessity, developed through millions of years of evolution as a protective mechanism against unexpected danger: this is the primary function of the visceral level.

Cultural constraints are likely to change with time.

Our becoming is done.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

I quickly learned that the world is a changing place. You cannot stand still. If you do, life will pass you by.

Always try to improve on your performance. Do

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

The human body essentially recreates iteself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were in February.

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.

The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.

There are no specific results mentioned or details about what life is like now that the transformation has taken place. If you're asking customers to write a

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING.