“The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.” WorldHas BeensSidesInterestingNumbersPovertyEvolutionLessonsNegativeDuesImpressionDataStatisticsMonopolyVery InterestingCultivationProvidersRosyUpbeatWorld Bank Author:Thomas Pogge
“Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.” CountryStatesRealityPoliticalSocialSituationSawsConditionsMovementEvolutionMassCapitalismImpactWorkersPopulationEmploymentRuthlessRough TimesPrecariousVenezuelaSocial MovementsSubsistencePolitical MovementsBoliviaEcuador Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.” MindBelieveHumansProblemFantasyEffectsProduceEvolutionMachinesArguingHuman MindRaysElectricMaintainingSingularityGridsHuman EvolutionSynthetic Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who commit to moving forward their own individual and personal evolution by embracing and demonstrating behaviors that serve to awaken the species to who and what human beings really are Individuations of Divinity, and how that may be made manifest in our experience.” HumansMayMadeSelfMovingIndividualHuman BeingsEvolutionReaderConversationBehaviorSpeciesCommitMoving ForwardDivinityManifestBeing RealInvitedSelectDemonstratingIndividuationPersonal Evolution Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.” Has BeensEvolutionEvolveOutlaw Author:Willie Nelson
“I was such a huge fan of Harry Potter books. That's how I got into it. I had never really thought about acting or a career. I just wanted to be Ron, really. It was a very unusual introduction into the industry, and we learned so much. It's been a real education and an evolution. I really, really enjoy this.” BookRealWantedEnjoyActingCareersFansHugeIndustryEvolutionUnusualHarry PotterIntroductionPottersReal Education Author:Rupert Grint
“It gives evolutionary biologists great status if they champion competition and the economists have to consult them. The economists have to consult the evolutionary biologists, because they are the ones who invented the idea of competition. It comes from the field of evolution.” IfsGivingIdeasFieldsEvolutionCompetitionChampionEconomistBiologist Author:Greg Graffin
“We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.” PeopleMindKindFormLevelsStudyMediaPossibilityEvolutionSpeciesEnormousPoolGenesConnectingNew MediaTransference Author:Jean Houston
“I think a part of evolution is the desire to know yourself, and know the world you live in, and discover everything you can about the world you live in. That world can be the microcosm of your own emotions, or a society, or the cosmos. There's this constant desire for knowledge.” ThinkingKnowsWorldDesireEmotionEvolutionConstantCosmosKnow YourselfMicrocosmDesire For Knowledge Author:Audra McDonald
“I despise the fact that the youth today acts as if being youthful is the answer to everything. It's a very young minded perspective and if you're not smart enough to realize that in life evolution is real. What that means is, we all are evolving and getting older every second of the day. That means it's about what you know, what you do and how hard you press the button to make it go. If you're not willing to put it in the time, energy and work in, then it doesn't matter how young you are. You'll be here and gone tomorrow if you don't learn something.” IfsKnowsMeanRealMatterHardEnoughFactsTodayYoungEnergyRealizingAnswersGoneYouthWillingPerspectiveEvolutionTomorrowSmartPressesEvolveDespiseButtonsGetting OldGetting OlderEvery Second Author:Sean Garrett
“I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.” PeopleHeartLongHappensDiesProcessDifficultStrangeEvolutionLong TimeForgivenessForgivingPainfulLong Time Ago Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“I feel like with Indy cars, you can just show up - if you are equipped to build and make a nice car, then you could be competitive. But in NASCAR I don't see that even being possible for someone to just show up with a car. There's too much evolution of the tricks and bells and whistles and all the things it takes to be fast in stock-car racing that you wouldn't know.” IfsKnowsFeelsShowsToo MuchNiceCarEvolutionTricksRacingBellsNascarCar RacingNice CarsStock Car Racing Author:Danica Patrick
“I think you can see the evolution of me as an artist, and just becoming confident and coming into my own and becoming my own person throughout each mixtape. One thing I could learn from looking back at my old mixtapes, what I could learn from my old self, is just to keep that hunger and that drive and that feeling of an underdog and also the feeling of being a fan, still lookin up to people - you just want to impress them.” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsStillsSelfFeelingsArtistMy OwnOne ThingFansEvolutionBecomingHungerLooking BackImpressUnderdogOld SelfMixtapes Author:Kevin McCall
“In entertainment, the technology began giving us greater choice and easier switching before almost any other area. The studios became much more dependent on the stars, not just star actors and directors but also star technicians, star cinematographers. It's a very important evolution in terms of understanding why people are working the way they're working.” PeopleGivingImportantChoicesUnderstandingTermTechnologyEvolution Author:Robert Reich
“I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.” HumanityTechnologyEvolutionRelationEvolve Author:Dan Simmons
“Things do look pretty grim, but I think there are more laughs in Hellboy in Hell than there are in B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth. I think Hell is getting nicer and Earth is getting worse. Once we figured out what we were doing, the whole point of the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. stuff has always been evolution. The kind of evolution we're seeing on Earth is nasty evolution - part of this kind of evolution is that you have to wipe out what was there before you can replace it.” ThinkingKindEarthLaughingHellEvolutionNastyGrim Author:Mike Mignola
“Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.” WorldCultureFightingFunEvolutionConcernedThreatStorytellingMentalityShallowHousewife Author:Laura Linney
“I'm a novelist and science writer. I wrote a book about human impacts on marine mammals caused by agricultural drainage of nutrients on our coasts, and another book about evolution. Seasteading captivated me because it incorporates both evolution and environmental restoration.” BookEvolutionEnvironmentalMarine Author:Joe Quirk
“Evolution is variation and selection. If you can vary alternatives, and select among them, improvement emerges. It works in technology, in apps, and in life itself. What stunned me about seasteading is that it's a technology for variation and selection in governance itself. The reason some two hundred nation-states do a poor job of governing seven billion people is that they don't vary, and people don't select.” PeopleReasonPoorTechnologyEvolutionSevenImprovementSelectVary Author:Joe Quirk
“Science is leading us forward in our evolution in the area of spiritual consciousness, in a sense. They're leading us to a final realization, through validation, of what spiritual masters have known for centuries. That we are a lot more than we seem, that we are all part of a whole, that we have far greater extended potential than we make use of or understand.” SpiritualConsciousnessEvolutionRealization Author:Lynne McTaggart
“There are days when you might enjoy being an editor a little less, due to one crisis or another. It is absolutely vital, to me, in a period of technological evolution and sometimes financial stress that I and my colleagues not only put out a fantastic magazine and Web site and all the rest, but also that we are smart enough about what we are doing.” SometimesEnoughEnjoyEvolutionSmartStressCrisisFinancialFantasticTechnological Author:David Remnick
“The common thread of the series is that these are the books that Elephant and Piggie like to read. Elephant and Piggie are retired, so this is what they do in their spare time. What will they end up wanting to read? Time will tell. We've got to let that evolution happen as the series goes on. Any return of a character would have to be organic, would have to be, for example, Laurie Keller saying, hey, I really want to do this, and me feeling that there's a story there, rather than just saying, yeah, we can get three books out of these characters.” BookCharacterFeelingsCommonEvolutionRetiredJust Saying Author:Mo Willems
“Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have some benefits. So, that suggests to me that we and our ancestors have had music as a central part of our experience for eons. And we're just beginning to understand how that might be. I think that's fascinating.” ThinkingBrainTroubleDesignEvolutionAncestor Author:Renee Fleming
“I don't know if I will ever get sick of performing a song called 'Feels Like Loneliness' from Evolution. It's inspired by one of my favorite songs, 'Fever' by Peggy Lee. It's got a jazzy feel to it and I'm always able to put on a bit of character when I sing it, which is fun.” CharacterSongFunEvolutionSickInspiredMy FavoritePerformingFavorite Song Author:Sabrina Carpenter
“It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in this Darwinian evolution that could've done that. So it seems to be a miracle of some sort.” DifferentDoneAbilityEvolutionMiracleConcentrationReally Amazing Author:Freeman Dyson
“Darwinian evolution is slow and gradual, step by step. Such an evolution can explain micro-evolution but not macro-evolution. For example, how did the eye evolve? The idea behind Darwinism is that organisms adapt, and that nature selects only those genetic changes which are the mutations that serve a good purpose for adaptation. So taken this way, the eye cannot develop gradually because one-thousandth or one-millionth of an eye would be of no value for survival. So generally this question rules out Darwinism as an adequate theory for macro-evolution.” EyePurposeValuesTakenEvolutionSurvivalEvolveAdaptationDarwinism Author:Ricky Ray
“The pressure was always there, but I feel like it was almost invisible to me. I had too much going on once I got rolling with Evolution and won my first title. They say the cream rises to the top, and I felt like the cream. I rose to the top real quick, and I was surrounded by Triple H, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, these guys who were very well respected in the profession, and they wanted to work with me.” RealGuyEvolutionRoseProfessionInvisibleUndertaker Author:Randy Orton
“People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually, but we're also at a point in the evolution of capitalism where any one individual's impacts are over estimated because there is enough regulation and guard rails. They may be odious and grotesque in what they say, but the practical day-to-day impacts from a policy perspective tend to be limited because the system made it so. That's why you see a lot of political apathy because people have internalized the inability for anyone either really really good or really really bad to do anything.” PeopleEnoughPoliticalPolicyPerspectiveEvolutionCapitalismPoint Of ViewApathyRail Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“I think that comics and television, as mediums, go hand in hand. Both tell long-form, continuing stories that are parsed out into little chapters and, if are successful, continue for years and years. What that means to me, as a writer, is it tells stories of transformation and evolution as characters.” ThinkingMeanCharacterSuccessfulEvolutionTransformation Author:Robert Kirkman
“Enlightenment is not so much a hard-won achievement, much less a "creation," but instead is deep relaxation and recovery of our natural condition. You come to see the evolution of the soul, the soul's journey, as a realization of what has always been there in the first place.” SoulNaturalJourneyCreationEvolutionAchievementEnlightenmentRecoveryRealizationRelaxation Author:Alex Grey
“Personal evolution has nothing to do with art, it's never. Art is a sine curve: dark and light change permanently, in cumulative radicalism. Art decides what to do. The choice of colors is made by the colors themselves. The evolution of art is the evolution of the future itself.” ArtChoicesDarkEvolutionArt Is Author:Jonathan Meese
“I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how people work. So I think most moral philosophy is disconnected from the species that we happen to be. In fact, they like it that way. Many moral philosophers insist that morality grows out of our rationality, that it applies to any rational being anywhere in the universe, and that it is not based on contingent or coincidental facts about our evolution.” PeopleThinkingDonePhilosophyTogetherUniverseMoralEvolutionMoralityPhilosopherRationalRationalityClueSpeculationMoral Philosophy Author:Jonathan Haidt
“Many quantum physics are realizing or hypothesizing that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that matter, an expression of our brains, although it expresses itself through our brains. But consciousness is the common ground of existence that ultimately differentiates into space, time, energy, information and matter. And the same consciousness is responsible for our thoughts, for our emotions and feelings, for our behaviors, for our personal relationships, for our social interactions, for the environments that we find ourselves in, and for our biology.” FeelingsEnergyRealizingCommonEmotionExistenceBrainConsciousnessEnvironmentEvolutionBehaviorResponsiblePhysicsBiologyQuantum PhysicsSocial Interaction Author:Deepak Chopra
“My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.” BookDreamTogetherBlackEvolutionSimplify Author:Quincy Jones
“In India you would find people who belong to the 10 richest people in the entire world, and you would find people whose poverty levels are sub-Saharan in fact practically: people who would probably make less than a dollar a day or would only have enough for one meal. Now, to have these kinds of contrasts coexist, is something which boggles my mind. We have a country that is making great economic progress, a country that is making his presence felt all over the world, but at the same time, it is unable to deal with some of these fundamental contradictions in our economic evolution.” PeopleWorldMindKindCountryEnoughPovertyProgressEconomicEvolutionContradictionContrastCoexist Author:Cyril Shroff
“Obviously, we went after Trump quite a bit, but I also feel like, we can't be on anyone's side, really. We need to be on comedy's side, so we need to be fairly going after everyone, because the entire political system is a circus. So it's been fun and interesting, and I hope people enjoy the evolution of the show. It'll continue to evolve because you can't do the same show forever. I feel like people would get bored with that.” PeoplePoliticalFunEnjoyInterestingForeverEvolutionEvolveBored Author:Chris Hardwick
“I don't think there's ever a moment when you can actually say, "I found it." Even when you think you did, the next moment something happens and it can drift away. It's about the evolution of love and faith. It constantly surprises us.” ThinkingMomentsEvolutionSurpriseThings HappenFaith And Love Author:Olga Kurylenko
“My personal style is a continued evolution. I can see I've had a different style for every different age in the period of my life. It's difficult for me to say what is my style because I change all the time. I change every eight months, it's so weird.” DifferentAgeDifficultStyleEvolutionPersonal Style Author:Alessandra Mastronardi
“The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most Norman Rockwell version to Norman Bates. Without family, we have very little - it is the most basic social structure. So yes I suppose I wanted to write a hopeful book about the evolution of the family.” WorldWritingBookStruggleEvolutionOptimisticHopeful Author:A.M. Homes
“I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all over the globe to reinforce this new-found power in the body. Women have been divided to be conquered. No one person did this. It's been a cultural evolution. The masculine nature is very out there and vocal and very much espousing their point of view, and God bless them. The female culture needs to learn to do the same.” ThinkingCultureEvolutionFemalePoint Of ViewBlessFeminineMasculineGod Bless Author:Sheila Kelley
“Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't think about those those for a good four, five years, because they were just discovering the new tools and what they could do with them, you know? The big folk revival, I think is a backlash against that. And now, I think they'll probably try to find somewhere in the middle. It's interesting. It's like push-and-pull. It's always like that, you know? Music history is always like that, this repeating evolution of music.” ThinkingTryingForgetInterestingEvolutionMelodyRevivalElectronic MusicPercussion Author:Patrick Watson
“You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple lines of voice and a lot of text. On one hand, it's a reflection of the evolution of the technology. On the other hand, though, I think it's a reflection of our aspirations. We've always felt that the medium can get more and more cinematic, and I think when it follows the convention of Mass Effect 2 film, it grows more and more compelling. There's a hundred years of knowledge and learning in that space that we can then apply.” ThinkingCharacterFilmTechnologyEvolutionCoupleReflectionAspirationGates Author:Greg Zeschuk
“Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.” ProblemEvolutionComplexityRealising Author:Michael Behe
“We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or everything has been to expand it, instead of backtracking or trying to destroy what we have done.” TryingDoneBuildingEvolution Author:Thomas Bangalter
“I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When I was doing early pieces, I wasn't exactly in love with the idea of building the stuff. I could do it because I had the skills, but I really did it because I couldn't find anyone else to build it for me.” TermBuildingEvolution Author:Marc Newson
“The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: "You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous." That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.” ThinkingKindDifferentDangerousEvolutionTensionCivilizedPotFence Author:Ai Weiwei
“There has been evolution in my work. In the beginning I was very much busy with the physical body and the limits of the physical body but that somehow naturally led me to the mental body and how I could deal with that. Stillness is so much harder, especially for three months. It was a big challenge. As a performer it is the most difficult experience one can have. And the interactive experience with the public made it even harder.” DifficultChallengesEvolutionBusyStillness Author:Marina Abramovic
“My work is nice, natural, it's never "been there done that," my work remains very interesting without losing my soul - because it's really me, and I am always honest with myself. I don't care what's in or out, I just listen to myself. And it's very nice to able to work like that. At the beginning people might have wondered what I was doing, but now they know my line, my evolution, I'm respected for that and that's a wonderful feeling.” PeopleSoulDoneFeelingsCareNaturalInterestingNiceWonderfulHonestEvolutionLosingVery InterestingVery NiceJust Listen Author:Ann Demeulemeester
“For my prom, I was so fancy, I got t a suit tailored. I wanted a three-piece suit. I thought it would be cool to wear all black - black shirt, black tie, I figured it would be the coolest thing I've ever done. That was my first suit. I put the suit on two years later and it was so big on me and absurd and didn't fit. I still have it. I won't throw it out. It's too fun. It reminds me where I come from. Actually, I have an evolution of suits in my closet. It starts with that one and goes up to the suits that I get to have now.” DoneFunBlackEvolutionFitAbsurdShirtsBeing Cool Author:Gabriel Macht
“I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.” ThinkingNaturalConsciousnessEvolutionNatural Law Author:Matthew McConaughey