Quotes About Evolution

Si no cambias, te cambian, ésa es la lógica del progreso. Si te quedas petrificado en la costumbre, la historia te pasa por encima. Está demostrado que los que se resisten al cambio suelen terminar aplastados por la contundencia de los hechos.

Este impulso a investigar que mueve a los individuos, ayuda a que el sistema conductual heredado se enriquezca y aumente el repertorio de recursos para afrontar peligros y preverlos. Es una forma de autoestimulación que desarrolla más  sustancia blanca del cerebro (mielinización) para que podamos aprender más y mejor. Explorar es curiosear y la curiosidad es uno de los factores que ha permitido la evolución y mantenimiento de la vida en el planeta.

Coherencia y flexibilidad, la clave de todo crecimiento personal: intentar ser consecuente, pero abierto al cambio.

Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.

There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness . . . that time is now.

side of his head, over the bald spot, to the other.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Habitat for Humanity founder Millard Fuller, who said, "It's easier to act your way33 into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

what the New York Times recently characterized22 as a perfect storm in which no one, whether blue-collar or white-collar and whatever level of expertise, can afford to stand pat. "The need to constantly adapt is the new reality for many workers" was the theme of the piece headlined "The Age of Adaptation." The story had a term for what is now required of many workers—serial mastery.

Through the years, companies from Polaroid (Why do we have to wait for the picture?) to Pixar (Can animation be cuddly?21) have started with questions. However, when it comes to questioning, companies are like people: They start out doing it, then gradually do it less and less. A hierarchy forms, a methodology is established, and rules are set; after that, what is there to question?

When you change one small thing32 and it works, it can help breed the confidence to change other things—including bigger ones.

The answer is, through questioning. Rather than run from a failure or try to forget it ever happened, hold it to the light and inquire, Why did the idea or effort fail? What if I could take what I've learned from this failure and try a revised approach? How might I do that?

At the same time, as Yamashita points out, it's just as important to look forward when asking big questions about purpose. He urges clients to work on Whom must we fearlessly become? That can be a difficult challenge, he says, because it requires "envisioning a version of the company that does not exist yet.

A recent article in Fast Company pointed out that a11 number of today's leading companies—Nike, Apple, Netflix—have increasingly been finding success by moving outside their primary area of expertise. The article, with the provocative headline "Death to Core Competency," suggests that whatever a company's specialty product or service might be—whatever got you to where you are today—might not be the thing that gets you to the next level.

It's easier to act your way33 into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

Death to Core Competency," suggests that whatever a company's specialty product or service might be—whatever got you to where you are today—might not be the thing that gets you to the next level.

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

When male vervet monkeys fight in their wars with other groups of monkeys to protect their territory or to get food, female monkeys reward the best surviving "warriors" by grooming them. The social status of these warrior monkeys goes up, and therefore more female vervet monkeys want to mate with them. In contrast, the female monkeys ignore and "snap" at the male monkeys who abstain from battle.2

Biology is only the best hint as to what was functional in the past but not necessarily about what will be in the future. The most empowering question we can ask about the future is not "What is the future and how do we adapt?" but "How do we want our future to be and how do we adapt?

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

You can't 'increment' yourself into the future.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

Sometimes the way forward is the way back.