Quotes About Evolution

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

we will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

Actually he wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." For some obscure reason, a central distinction had been lost as the years eroded the accurate version of his statement to mean something entirely different and, upon close inspection, entirely silly.44

Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead

The noted archaeologist Richard Leakey ascribes the essence of what makes us human to the reciprocity system: "We are human because our ancestors learned to share their food and their skills in an honored network of obligation,"9

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

all problems can be reperceived as challenges, or "opportunities" to change, grow or learn.

The law of change says, "Things do not stay the same. If they don't get better, they get worse." If relationships do not get stronger, they will get weaker; if they do not become closer, they will become more distant; if they do not become more productive, they will become less productive.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

Either way, things are a lot better — either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

There must, at a certain point, be a transformation. If not, there is no art.