Quotes About Progress

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

The best leaders never stop learning.

The future of America is bound up in the present crisis. If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have a second-class citizenship.

Press on and keep pressing. If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk—CRAWL.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

We need a great president.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

It doesn`t hurt to get more education.

success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

Unfortunately, it would seem that economic power, despite temporary hardships, is the only responsible course open to the free world.

We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.

If you define the goal of a society as GNP, that society will do its best to produce GNP. It will not produce welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency unless you define a goal and regularly measure and report the state of welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency.

We know a tremendous amount about how the world works, but not nearly enough. Our knowledge is amazing; our ignorance even more so. We can improve our understanding, but we can't make it perfect.

The model is constructed in such a way that the global population will eventually level off and start declining, if industrial output per capita rises high enough. But we see little "real world" evidence that the richest people or nations ever lose interest in getting richer. Therefore, policies built into World3 represent the assumption that capital owners will continue to seek gains in their wealth indefinitely and that consumers will always want to increase their consumption.

A quantity growing exponentially toward a constraint or limit reaches that limit in a surprisingly short time.

The more I practice piano, the more pleasure I get from the sound, and so the more I play the piano, which gives me more practice.

If the desired system state is good education, measuring that goal by the amount

The central question of economic development is how to keep the reinforcing loop of capital accumulation from growing more slowly than the reinforcing loop of population growth—so that people are getting richer instead of poorer.

Focus on what's ahead. Use what is behind.

You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

I have known Nature. I have known Civilization. Civilization is better.

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.

fitness of the gross, or annamaya kosha, layer of the body is inferred from the inner health of the subtle body. Health, a light body, freedom from craving, A glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance Of body: these signs indicate progress In the practice of meditation. Shvetashvatara Upanishad 2.123

Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.