Quotes About Evolution

Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

It is almost impossible to jump from "bad" to "best" without passing through "good." Also, as ignorance recedes, "good" is an infinitely more comfortable place to be than "bad." What we call "bad" is ignorance in action and, as a strategy for life, thrives only on darkness.

Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherein, and how, they have degenerate; but yet ask counsel of both times; of the ancient time, what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest.

We have brought in the yoke of custom to improve the world, and in the world the custom sticks.

The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step. What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.

Man, being the strongest of all animals, differs from the rest; he was obliged to be his own domesticator; he had to tame himself.

In old times, letters were written for people who knew nothing and required to be told everything. Now they are written for people who know everything except the one thing which the letter is designed to explain to them. It is impossible in some respects not to regret the old practice. It is well that each age should write for itself a faithful account of its habitual existence.

There was a previous generation of women who rose through the ranks in an environment when work and life were highly compartmentalized. And I think now, because of technology, we're always on. Where there used to be work life and home life, now it's one life. And I think a lot of companies don't recognize that.

You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.

No one has advanced the argument that all-male fighting forces have been handicapped in their war-making abilities over the millennia because they did not include women in their ranks.

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop.

I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'

Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.

If you stay in one place, you can only rap about one thing because that's all you know.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

When I was 13 years old, I was dressing in a rap style. And then I changed schools, and the rap style became old-fashioned, so I changed it completely.

When I joined this band, I never thought of myself as a singer. I just did whatever I could, which was rap. And then, over time, I've grown, and we've developed and tried different things. It all happened gradually and naturally.