Quotes About Evolution

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Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded Man' was fear. 'Desert Spear' was exploration of the other. 'Daylight War' was relationships. Some of this is intentional, and some of it evolves naturally. The series as a whole is obviously something I have given a lot of thought to, but each book is its own animal as well.

When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.

As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

Jerry Goldsmith's 'Voyager' theme is a brilliant reworking of the original material.

I am used to moving homes in football, and it seems to be a recurring theme in my career.

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

Themes rise and fall. Kingdoms rise and fall. Religions rise and fall.

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.

When she was teaching us to garden, cook, read, clean, sew, she said she was preparing us for life. Well, life has changed a lot in the years since she was my age, but somehow the lessons haven't really changed. They've evolved. And I want to be part of that.

His father was as far away from the door as he could get. Jed peeked over the edge of the loft, a tinfoil cap on his head. Someday Cal was going to find out why so many schizophrenics during periods of paranoia adopted the same self-protective traits. Tinfoil? Hadn't their fears evolved beyond the point they believed the superpowers couldn't read their minds through household foil? It was almost as though there was collective thinking among this entire subculture.

Listen, remember what we've always talked about...change can be good. What feels like a disaster can be your new opportunity.

Guys like us. Who'd ever have thought?" Jack rubbed a hand across the back of his sweaty neck and said, "Yeah, well, look out. You bite the dust like I did and all of a sudden you're breeding up a ball team." "I'll

Camel trips do not begin or end, they merely change form.

It's important that we leave each other and the comfort of it, and circle away, even though it's hard sometimes, so that we can come back and swap information about what we've learnt even if what we do changes us and we risk not recognizing each other when we return.

In different places, survival requires different things, based on the environment. Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

The life you pan isn't the life that happens again

Sometimes you look around at your life and you see a ghost of a different one. It watches from the wings like an understudy that knows it won't go on. The play unfolds, and eventually, when you glance backstage, that life you knew is gone, and no one watching ever knew it was there at all.