Quotes About Progress

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,giant finned cars nose forward like fish;a savage servilityslides by on grease.

Rome, if built at all, must be built in a day.

We feel the machine slipping from our handsas if someone else were steering;if we see the light at the end of the tunnel,it's the light of the oncoming train.

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If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

Learn always but never appear to be learning.

It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.

History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

No age lives entirely alone; every civilisation is formed not merely by its own achievements but by what it has inherited from the past." — British Major Ronald Balfour of the Monuments Men

Progress in America historically has come from thinkers and ideologues on both the left and the right, but the best of those ideas have been enacted into law through compromise. Now moderation is equated with lacking principles, and compromise with "selling out.

Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we reenact.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.

twenty yards to go—he could see a laundry truck rumbling by on the street—and

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks." —Albert Einstein, in an

One of the most powerful ways to "program" your brain is the kaizen technique of asking small questions.

Once you've experienced the joy of taking the first step, you can decide whether it's appropriate to take another. You'll know you're ready when your current step becomes automatic, effortless, and even pleasurable. But don't let anyone pressure you... If you ever feel yourself dreading the activity or making excuses for not performing it, it's time to cut back on the size of the step.

Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. " -Tao Te Ching

low-key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity. Just

Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.