Quotes About Progress

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

quite the same as approving of it. She wondered, for instance, how Columbus or Magellan would react if they could see them all sitting in comfortable chairs watching a movie in the sky as they crossed the ocean insulated from wind, tides, storm and distance, and without any decent sense of awe. One ought, she felt, to suffer just a little. Not much but a little.

integral sayings of Zen Buddhism is, 'Do the best you can and then walk on.

It's terribly important for everyone, at any age, to live to his full potential. Otherwise a kind of dry rot sets in, a rust, a disintegration of personality.

I've lived a life of unfinished things.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

South Carolina did not overturn its ban on interracial marriage until 1998, and even then 38 percent of voters opposed the referendum.

Fear is one of the biggest things that will stop you from moving forward and doing the things that will get you to your destiny.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.