Continuous Evolution Quotes

The moment you get comfortable is the moment you get stagnant, so I want to make sure I keep evolving.

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

Nature is never finished.

We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.

The fashion industry, like others, is constantly changing.

Jazz never ends... it just continues.

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.

There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

The smartest and most successful people I know are the people who are constantly evolving, always learning. It does not end with school.

I like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn't want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. 'Discreet Music' was like that, and 'Music for Airports.' What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.

We are always in transition.

To me, a song is not finished. To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven's nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

Often in each collection, there are three or so seeds of things that come together accidentally to form what appears to everyone else as a final product, but for me, it is never ending.

We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.