Quotes About Evolution

It wasn't until after Raspberries, Big Star and Badfinger came to exist that powerpop became a genre. In each case, I suspect Pete Ham, Alex Chilton and I all felt the same void after the Beatles broke up, and somehow we were all trying to fill it.

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

You often hear when you talk to guys in our industry, that this is my personality, I just turn the volume up, but over the years, I've really become me. No volume turned up, no nothing. I've been able to go out there and just be myself. It's through solid performance after solid performance that people just take you for who you are.

I'm not chasing mail volume down because I'm going where we see growth. That's what we need to do.

In my honest opinion, in 'Volumes I' and 'II,' we were still trying to figure out our sound.

Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.

The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

After a two-term presidency, many young voters seem to want someone who is radically different from, even the opposite of, the commander in chief to whom they have become accustomed. After all, a two-term president will have led their nation for a significant percentage of their lives. That's boring. Isn't it time for a transformation?

Mr. Trump has evolved to the point where he understands that a grass-roots strategy must be supplemented with paid advertising to be able to combat the negative ads that will run against him - and he is prepared or preparing to spend what it takes to make sure his message gets to the voters.

Films have become much more professional. It is now a secure place for people.

When I go to sleep, I want to know that I have experimented as an actor, and I am constantly seeking to evolve.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

Even Cristiano Ronaldo has developed from a selfish goalscorer into someone who likes to pass the ball.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.