Quotes About Progress

Start. Don't look back. If at the end it doesn't meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

Don't waste time on how it starts until you know how it ends

Negotiations are not likely to make much progress as long as one side believes that the fulfillment of their basic human needs is being threatened by the other.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world depends.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

The only way to measure our progress is to read about what this country used to be.

As historians, we have to remind ourselves that yesterday was once tomorrow.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realization and then a little realization built on that.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.

Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor are not helped by taking revenge against the rich, but by opening the doors to social advancement. Since

In Die Welt von Gestern, Stefan Zweig attributed the decline of civil order in Europe to the myth of progress.7 In all the ideologies of his day – communism, socialism, Nazism, fascism – Zweig saw the same pernicious attempt to rewrite the principles of social order in terms of a linear progression from past to future. The

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

Ali gotovo uvijek idemo najkra?im putem, ravno, pa zaboravljamo da ?ovjek može napredovati ?ak i kad ide u krug.

The optimism of a revolutionary always gives rise to a sense of wonder.

All progress demands payment. These are the growing pains of which you speak, not the final results. Fool! There is no such thing as progress! Not as you see it! What good are all the machines and ideas you unloose in their cultures, if you do not change the men themselves?

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

Go ahead and smirk. These things are not always a mere function of time

Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote, All things fall and are built again, and those that build them are gay.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay