Quotes About Progress

There are those at both ends of the social scale who would have us change direction!" Curnsbick was shouting. "Those who would not only try to dam the river of progress but have it flow uphill! Who would break, burn and murder in the name of dragging us back into a glorious past that never truly was. A place of ignorance, superstition, squalor and fear. A place of darkness! But there will be no going

The thing about rowing, you face backward. Always looking into the past, never the future. Always seeing what you're losing, never what you've got to gain.

We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find that we are...this.

exceeded every expectation. It was built on a wide promontory that

What's the difference between biding it and wasting it?" Clover saw no need to open his eyes. "Results, woman. Results.

better next time. That's what life is." Logen

Great folk are great 'cause they plant new footsteps. Not 'cause they blunder through the same mistakes some other bastards made.

The mistakes of old,' intoned Bayaz with the highest pomposity, 'should be made only once. Any worthwhile education, therefore, must be founded on a sound understanding of history.

What are you doing?' 'What we should all be doing,' Clover closed his eyes. 'Biding my time.' 'What's the difference between biding it and wasting it?' Clover saw no need to open his eyes. 'Results, woman. Results.

Patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing. You have to be realistic about these things.

Patience is the parent of success , Stolicus wrote.

los grandes viajes empiezan con pasos pequeños.

They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.

Î?i aminte?ti de mor?i cât po?i mai bine. Roste?ti câteva cuvinte pentru ei. Apoi mergi mai departe ?i speri la ceva mai bun.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

Whatever you've done to become successful, it won't be enough to keep you successful. You have to move on to the next thing or be prepared to lose ground. There's very little maintaining of your position these days. You're either moving forward or backward.

Changing just for the sake of changing can be a more dangerous trap than being stuck in complacency. The graveyard of failed businesses is full of companies that were willing to try anything, whether it made sense or not, just so they could feel that they were "riding the waves of change.

Just because something has always been done a certain way does not necessarily mean it's the best way, or the correct way, or the healthiest way for your horse, or your relationship with your horse, or your life.

Ya cruzaremos ese puente cuando lleguemos a él

I didn't want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I wasn't interested in the people who shaped the future. I was more interested in people who were shaped by the future. People who were products of their environment.

Are we defined by where we want to go or where we've been?

If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.

So if we want to change some aspect of our reality, we have to think, feel, and act in new ways; we have to "be" different in terms of our responses to experiences. We have to "become" someone else. We have to create a new state of mind … we need to observe a new outcome with that new mind.