Quotes About Progress

It is the job of governments to resist entrepreneurs' lobbying until basic developmental objectives have been achieved.

It takes time to save time.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Popular prejudice always dies slowly, especially among those individuals most anxious about their own deteriorating economic situation and unstable social status.

Don't be alarmed if during the first week or two of healthy eating, you feel worse and the desire to use food to curtail discomfort is heightened. This usually passes within the first four days.

He rises a copy of a poster. On the left is a quote from The New York Times dated October 9, 1903. It says,'The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians in from one million to ten million years'. On the right is a quote from Orville Wright's diary, dated October 9, 1903. 'We started assembly today' it says.

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.

Humankind's greatest creation has always been its cities. They represent the ultimate handiwork of our imagination as a species, testifying to our ability to reshape the natural environment in the most profound and lasting ways. Indeed, today our cities can be seen from outer space. Cities

As late as 1850, the United States had only six "large" cities with a population of over one hundred thousand, constituting barely 5 percent of the population. This reality would change dramatically in the next fifty years. By 1900, there were thirty-eight such cities, and they now housed roughly one in every five Americans.23

Things change as they are discovered.

Access to useful information also was determined by literacy and the availability of reading material. It is now widely agreed at least for Britain that increases in literacy were relatively modest during the Industrial Revolution. Yet literacy is not particularly useful unless people actually read, and for the purposes of technological change it also matters how much and what people read.

Not so much a trickle down as a dragging-along.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

You may think you've got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you've already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you're not what you used to be.

Don't simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.

Your best days are still out in front of you

When you go through a disappointment, when you go through a loss, don't stop on that page. Keep moving forward. There's another chapter in front of you, but you have to be willing to walk into it.

You have to come to your closed doors before you'll ever get to your open doors.

What you tolerate you can not change