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Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation. The Dark Ages in western society were the most static, least innovative of times. So the fact that trilobites were replaced by batches of successive species through their long history was a testimony to their evolutionary vigour. ↗

— Richard Fortey

#death #evolution #extinction #innovation #trilobites

We interrogate the world by making. ↗

— Bill Burnett

#design-thinking #innovation #inspirational #stanford #design

And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #nicholas-sparks #north-carolina #novel #dreams

I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#rebecca-donovan #the-breathing-series #life

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow. ↗

— Max McKeown

#leadership #strategic #strategic-planning #strategy #leadership

Does he lay with you in the grass? Does he stare up at the stars, speaking of his dreams, wishing he could roll over and kiss you and run his fingers along the breasts that tease him beneath the shirt--the shirt he knows he will carry home with him and smell and, God help him, sleep in, just so that he could be close to you? ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#romance #romance-novels #dreams

The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dreams #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes #quotes

Fate it’s what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destination is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their dreams or fate. ↗

— Paulo Coelho from The Alcemist

#novel #dreams

It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many people only dream about. ↗

— Daniel Schwabauer

#dreams

At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world. ↗

— E.M. Foster

#maurice-novel #dreams