Quotes About Progress

Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode.

Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time.

ESCAPING SLOWLY

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Keep going, Giselle commanded herself. Just one more step. Just one more step. The chant in her brain seemed to work. Just one more step. One more step. One more step. One more. One more. One… A warm hand touched her shoulder and her eyes sprung open. Maura stood beside her, the light from Angelica's stick illuminating her amused face. Giselle didn't care. She almost collapsed in relief when she saw she was past the chasm. Well past.

Is there something I can do to make things better?

Indeed, a great life can come from small beginnings.

My dear, just because something seems implausible doesn't make it impossible. Think about how long people believed the world was flat.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

One is a young untried creature and then one day looks back and sees that young creature very far behind one; so distant that one can barely believe that one has journeyed so far.

Part of you recognizes you should change something about your actions, but another part is still attached to the old ways, no matter how uncomfortable they are. This is normal. This is part of being human.

it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.

Dingen hebben de gewoonte om vanzelf in orde te komen, zie je. Uiteindelijk - Marcia

This book is about the endless dance between progress and inequality, about how progress creates inequality, and how inequality can sometimes be helpful—showing others the way, or providing incentives for catching up—and sometimes unhelpful—when those who have escaped protect their positions by destroying the escape routes behind them.

One escape route from this negative conclusion is to argue, once again, that progress is being understated because quality improvements and new goods are not being adequately captured in the statistics. That would mean that inflation is being overstated, because some of the increase in prices comes from better things, not just from dearer things. If so, the poverty line is being increased too fast, and an ever-increasing proportion of the poor are not poor at all. If

It can be bad if the winners try to stop others from following them, pulling up the ladders behind them.

The decade of the 1960s was the postwar golden age, with an average growth rate of more than 4 percent a year, a rate that is high enough to increase incomes by a half in ten years. Growth

The explanation for why progress should be so uneven differs from case to case; the reason why poor people are more likely to smoke is not the same as the reason why so many poor children are not vaccinated. These accounts are to come, but for now the point is simply that health progress creates gaps in health just as material progress creates gaps in living standards.

one careful study estimates that the average income of all the inhabitants of the world increased between seven and eight times from 1820 to 1992.

At the same time, the fraction of the world's population in extreme poverty fell from 84 to 24 percent. This

Until the early 1970s, the United States was the very model of a modern major economy.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but there is nothing that guarantees a successful pregnancy.

Angus Stevenson

Angus Stevenson