Quotes About Evolution

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

This country is bursting.

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down, just more degradation. Then we got into punk rock, and now we are into rap music, which is a total oxymoron.

After Fifth Harmony succeeds to the fullest of its capacity, one day we can go off and do our individual things.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.

The consumer is deciding what they want to see and when and how, and filmmakers are more aware and accepting of the fact that success is not predicated on your movie showing in a traditional theater for a certain amount of time.

Failure and success are part of the same seed. If you don't embrace your failure, you never really know what success is.

The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes successful and gets branded with a certain sound, if the brand starts to become more of the focus than the evolution of the art, then that's putting the cart before the horse.

Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.

An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.

One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.

In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.

Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat any established, successful company can pull off.

The smartest and most successful people I know are the people who are constantly evolving, always learning. It does not end with school.