Quotes About Evolution

We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.

Conventional wisdom won't provide continual growth.

Your job as you know it and your business as it is currently run will eventually change. The only chance any of us have for prosperity is to constantly reimagine, rethink, and reinvent everything we do and how we do it in order to remain relevant. We must all become reinventors, and we'd better do it quickly.

THE REINVENTION KILLERS Yesterday's Breadwinners Every product or service has a natural life cycle that begins with an introduction, followed by growth, maturity, and inevitably a decline as it becomes yesterday's breadwinner. There are no exceptions

I undertook this project with the vague notion that reinvention was about moving a business from point A to point B. But that's not what I found. We discovered that in the process of moving from A to B these businesses developed new skill sets and values that allowed them to quickly progress to C, D, E, and beyond. They all became serial reinventors and embraced constant radical change.

Companies committed to growth make staying ahead of their customers' wants and needs a hallmark of their culture and accomplish that goal through constant radical change and reinvention.

Great companies [inevitably] develop a rowboat mentality," says Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO of Sony. They are "always looking behind to past successes" with awe and admiration as they row into the future.

As testament to the passion for change and reinvention that Apple embraces, more than half of the company's revenue comes from products that didn't exist four years ago.

We are working hard to avoid living in our past," he says. Stringer recognized that the real culprit standing in the way of progress at Sony was a tradition-bound mentality and began systematically letting go of the traditions and people that had hamstrung the company.

Necessity is the mother of reinvention. —what Plato should have said

Google started as a small library search project; Starbucks had no chairs and nonstop opera music at the beginning," Sims says. "Great entrepreneurs didn't start with big ideas, for the most part.

when our ancestors were chased by game or predators, they were practicing Parkour – the ability to move quickly and efficiently from one destination to another as safely as possible.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

En aquel momento tuve por vez primera la intuición falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya acontecido es irreversible.

Tendemos a desejar que ninguém morra e nada termine daquilo que nos acompanha e é nosso amado costume, e não vemos que a única coisa que mantém os costumes intactos é que eles nos sejam suprimidos de repente, sem desvio nem evolução possíveis, sem que nos abandonem nem nós os abandonemos. O que dura deteriora-se e acaba por apodrecer, aborrece-nos, vira-se contra nós, satura-nos, cansa-nos.

è intollerabile che le persone che conosciamo si trasformino in passato

Nada dura, ni se repite, ni se detiene, ni insiste.

Ha az ember sokáig vágyik valamire, egy idÅ' után már nagyon nehéz nem vágyni rá; úgy értem, ráébredni és elfogadni, hogy már nem arra vágyunk, hanem másvalamit szeretnénk.

Quién sabe quién nos sustituye y a quién sustituimos nosotros, sólo sabemos que sustituimos y se nos sustituye siempre, en todas las ocasiones y en todas las circunstancias y en cualquier desempeño y en todas partes, en el amor, la amistad, en el empleo y en la influencia, en la dominación, y en el odio que también mañana se cansará de nosotros, o pasado mañana o al otro o al otro.

Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera y de una evolución, la de su protagonista. También de la fragilidad y la tenacidad de una relación amorosa condenada al secreto y a la ocultación, al fingimiento y a la conjetura, y en última instancia al resentimiento mezclado con la lealtad.

Porque las palabras del año pasado pertenecen al lenguaje del año pasado y las palabras del año que viene esperan una voz distinta'.