Evolve Quotes - Page 21

• I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Inspiration, Believe, Musical

  "The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard".

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• What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Country, Business

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• Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Brave

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• In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Radical Feminism, Feminist

  "Feminist Andrea Dworkin Dies at 58". www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2005.

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• We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

  Anita Roddick

  Animal, Simple, Age

  "Business as Unusual, continued: deck here, too" by Anita Roddick, www.motherjones.com. January 19, 2001.

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• We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The smart school finds it's foundation in a rich and evolving set of principles about human thinking and learning.'

  David Perkins

  Smart, Teaching, School

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

  Indira Gandhi

  Women, Rivers, Water

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “India: The Speeches and Reminiscences of Indira Gandhi”

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• The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

  Lester R. Brown

  Junk, Aberration, Half

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.229, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Time, Moving, Mean

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• Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

  Gay Hendricks

  Inspirational, Pain, Struggle

  Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Innovation, Trying

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• I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape and a better feeling. You evolve into and out of things, and go through stages, but, ultimately, you do improve.

  Richard Thompson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But had no idea it would become a standard. You don't sit down and write a standard, he explained. A standard evolves.

  Paul Zollo

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

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• The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Music, Fun, Blessing

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• I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Editing

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• I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Ideas, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.141, Advaita Ashrama

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• When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Levels, Transformation

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• Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

  Nia Peeples

  Moving, Breathing, Perfection

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• There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Fall, Rising

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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• Now more than ever the world has to come together to make changes. Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does not mean that in today's world they are acceptable any longer. The world and the environment are evolving and that means we must change our ways as human beings as well.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Mean, Long, Together

  "Hayden Panettiere Speaks Out on Protesting Dolphin Hunt". people.com. November 2, 2007.

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• You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

  Corey Feldman

  Needs, Culture, Trends

  "Interview: Corey Feldman picture". www.askmen.com.

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• It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change.  Only at the precipice do we evolve.

  John Cleese

  People, Precipice

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• There's nothing nonsensical about saying that what would evolve if Darwinian selection has its head is something that you don't want to happen. And I could easily imagine trying to go against Darwinism.

  Richard Dawkins

  Trying, Want, Imagine

  "Darwin’s Dangerous Disciple". Interview with Frank Miele, www.skeptic.com. 1995.

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• I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Years, People

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