Quotes About Progress

The cord that tethers ability to success is both loose and elastic.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. —Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993

the elasticity of our thinking allows us to move beyond the existing world of our senses and invent new concepts.

in 1958, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 was sixty-one years. Today it is about twenty.

In many respects, the West has not recovered from the Middle Ages.

The proposition that the alphabet has hindered women's aspirations and accomplishments seems, at first glance, to be antithetical to historical facts.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Los je ucenik onaj, koji je ne nadmasi svog ucitelja.

Tell me if anything was ever done... Tell me... Tell me.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.

I believe man will fly and I base this assumption on the fact that God has blessed us with minds that are capable of imagining it. Anything that can be dreamt of will eventually be built. Anyone who says otherwise is a fool. (As quoted by a fictional Leonardo in DaVinci Demons)

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.

Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro.

Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

There's a reason God gave us eyes in front of our head and not in the back...so we can always look ahead.

Now I think people today should envy any of us who lived through the early seventies. It was such a time of hope and possibility, and ferment, and progress, and change, and media attention, and brilliant activist women everywhere you turned.