Quotes About Evolution

our genes' primary goal is not necessarily harmony between mates, but rather greater success for themselves.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

Why should you feel guilty if you refuse to be intimidated by [someone] who persists in standing in the way of your being that best self or who is "hurt" when you finally manage it? . . . The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be. No one owns you, no matter what your relationship.

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

going backwards is not about creating change. It's about understanding.

Improvement is hard. If it were easy, we'd already be better.

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.

You can continue doing what you're doing for a long time. But you'll never become the person you want to be.

change is not a one-way street.

Everyone around you has to recognize that you're changing. Relying on other people increases the degree of difficulty exponentially.

Your people are changing constantly and it's right in front of your eyes. If you don't change accordingly, you may as well be managing with your eyes wide shut. That's the most unforgivable prejudice of all.

We can always get better at something, even if it's just preserving the progress we've made. I

Not all of us require a violent life-threatening knock on the head to change our behavior. It only seems that way.

The best ideas are like great wines. They improve with age. But they can also go through a dumb period when they need time to settle and sink in.

a changing environment changes us. The

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.