Quotes About Evolution

I don't want to be like trees that put down roots in one place," he wrote. "I'd rather be like the wind, the water, the sun—like all those things that are forever in perpetual motion.

I'm sometimes amazed the human species survived to the present day, given the things we did to ourselves in the name of healing." p. 103, Elemental Imbalances

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Remember—humans once believed the world was flat, that margarine was better than butter, and that an ice-pick lobotomy cured mental illness. Aren't you glad those days are over?

you'll never grow beyond your current circumstances if you're closed off to everything except what you currently know.

Starting small and sucky beats staying stucky.

A nÅ' jobban benn él az élet folyásában, olyannak veszi az életet, amilyen.

If you observe a content which then disappears for a short time into the unconscious, it is not altered when it comes up again, but if you forget something for a long time, it does not return in the same form; it autonomously evolves or regresses in the other sphere, and therefore one can speak of unconscious as being a sphere, or entity in itself.

What got you here won't get you there. Marshall Goldsmith M

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

It's not so sure that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear ... . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Nikdo nem?že ?lov?ka donutit, aby se zm?nil. Každý z nás st?eží bránu ke zm?nám, kterou lze otev?ít pouze zevnit?.

But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.

Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh...

like all other living creatures, I am the descendant of survivors, so the fear in my head is the voice of my ancestors whispering their accumulated wisdom.

Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

Idea is to constantly raise the bar, push the boundaries. Fitness is ultimately a journey, not a destination.

You should always be learning. The fitness industry is always changing, especially with digital media giving it out anytime.