Quotes About Progress

Once they were men. Now they are land crabs.

In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity provides us with an excellent laboratory for gaining such an understanding.

This visualisation will enable clients to look at their lives objectively. It will help them to become aware of where they are in life and where they are going. It also introduces the possibility of making script changes.

This relaxing visualisation enables clients to look at their identity and uniqueness, becoming aware of where they have come from and where they are going. It may take clients a while to interpret and make their own, perhaps thinking it through and working on it between sessions. Once they have discovered their own unique song, it can help them move on in a positive way.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

Fundamentally, the conventional thinker prefers to accept the world as it is. The integrative thinker welcomes the challenge of shaping the world for the better.

go slow to go fast.

The future is to be conquered, the present ridiculed, and the past outdone." Voltaire Almighty

Sans doute, nos vacances sont perdues, mais l'avenir est intact.

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

New beginnings don't start with a flourish of music and a round of applause. They start in small increments. Little by little, you notice yourself feeling slightly happier and sleeping a bit better; a glimmer of optimism begins to return. Step by step, your new life begins.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

En el mundo burgués en vías de constitución, el vicio mayor, el pecado por excelencia, no es ya el orgullo o la avidez, como en el mundo medieval, sino la ociosidad.

try if you can to not stay in the small box of old thinking.

When you climb a mountain, you need to be looking forward not backward.