Evolve Quotes - Page 18

• That's because you're interpreting it the wrong way. I didn't mean it as a wistful, overdramatic declaration. I mean that the love I felt for him was huge and real, and, while painful, it forever changed me as a person, in the same way that being your brother reflects and changes how I evolve, and vice versa. The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

  Rachel Cohn

  Brother, Real, Heart

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• Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

  Greg Graffin

  Tragedy, Comfort, Narrative

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• Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

  John Knowles

  John Knowles (1988). “A Separate Peace”, p.37, Dramatic Publishing

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• Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

  Jay-Z

  Needs, Chance

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.183, Random House Group

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• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Science, Errors

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere.

  Rob Thurman

  Airplane, One Day, Television

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.34, Penguin

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• The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

  David Viscott

  Love, Marriage, Wish

  David Viscott (1986). “The Language of Feelings”, Pocket

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• Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

  Jon Ronson

  Impact, Insanity, What If

  Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

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• Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sacrifice, Race, Will To Survive

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.190, Macmillan

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• Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

  Louise Penny

  Life, World, Growing

  Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden

  Catherine Fisher

  Artist, Past, Men

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• Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

  Megan McCafferty

  Mistake, Credit, Done

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• Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

  Tom Holt

  Home, One Day, Evening

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• If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Philosophy, Believe, Passion

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• This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

  John Green

  Running, Fear, Land

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.140, A&C Black

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• Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Beautiful, Black, Soup

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.12, Harmony

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• Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

  David Eagleman

  Solutions

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.

  Ryohgo Narita

  Ordinary, Needs, Want

  Ryohgo Narita (2015). “Durarara!!, Vol. 1 (light novel)”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Fall, Men

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.270, Spectra

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• Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

  Seth Godin

  Adjusting, Today, Chance

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.41, Penguin

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• Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

  Pema Chodron

  Training, Energy, Abiding

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.130, Shambhala Publications

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• [There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drama, Silly, Order

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Travel, Book, Reading

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.105, Basic Books

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• Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Winning, Self, Views

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• The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.

  David Gerrold

  Time, Past, Long

  David Gerrold (1993). “Under the Eye of God”, Spectra

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