Quotes About Progress

Evolution forged the entirety of sentient life on this planet using only one tool, the mistake.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when, even though your destination is still concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.

We're all on the road to ruin but some are further ahead than others.

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Will you believe me if I say that no matter how bad things may appear, they will be better tomorrow if you allow tomorrow to do its work?

The past learns from the future, the future learns from the past. I already told you, we are the same five.

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There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when, even though your destination is still concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that likes just ahead of you, there it will be.

The world was healing itself.

This is 1955, for heaven's sake. Not the Middle Ages! Of course, it doesn't help having the bloody Tories still in power but you'd have thought we'd have moved away from the days when people were given wealth and power simply because of an accident of birth.

Finding the perfect job, perfect partner, or perfect place is as simple as perfecting yourself.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.