Quotes About Progress

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

I'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.

I'm really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn't be where I am.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

You can't skip a step and assume you're going to get to where you want to be.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

Life doesn't always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

I kind of want to continue to fail, because it's easier for me to think of what I want to do next. Whereas if I succeed I might have to follow that path.

Most of the time, women believe that what lies ahead is a precipice. Whereas, if you continue to drive and stay on the path, the road will open up in front of you, and you will reach your destination. You don't need to turn around and abandon the journey.

In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life. While the British have abandoned this approach, we in India seem to be struggling with the old British system of education.