Quotes About Progress

It is easier to act yourself way into a better way of feeling, than to feel yourself into a better way of action.O. H. Mowrer

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN

Quitting—whether a job or a habit—means taking a turn so as to be sure you're still moving in the direction of your dreams.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

So we shed no tears for the demise of the gyroscope man. One might place on his tombstone the epitaph, "Like the dinosaur, he had power without the ability to change, strength without the capacity to learn.

namely that man does not grow automatically like a tree, but fulfills his potentialities only as he in his own consciousness plans and chooses.

But it is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

In human beings courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

It was true through the early and growing stages of modern industrialism and capitalism that for you or me to strive to become rich by increasing our trade or building a bigger factory would eventually mean the production of more material goods for the community. The pursuit of competitive enterprise was a magnificent and courageous idea in its heyday. But in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries considerable changes occurred.

Among the works of man,

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

Seismic change can happen over a lifetime, or in an instant.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

? gyvenim? žvelgiu kaip ? didžiul? estafet?, kurioje kiekvienas m?s? prieš pargri?damas privalo kuo toliau nunešti išš?k? b?ti žmogumi <...>

No doubt about it: numbers are the future. The world's been learning to count since the days of chivalry ended and it's only going to get worse. We're about to witness the end of everything that isn't quantifiable—honor, for example.

Never say die. You have to be mad, it's true, to keep going and hope, but the first reptile who dragged his belly out of the water a million years ago to live on land without lungs and tried to breathe all the same — he too was mad. In the end the reptile became a man. We must always try to do the best we can — perhaps one day well become human, who knows.

It's too pragmatic for me," Valenti said. "The know-how is good enough for technology, not for science.

I was thinking of the new future that our Communist science is opening to us," he said. "Our people are fully aware of that," Dr. Han Tse said rapidly. "Ever since we exploded our first bomb there has been happiness and rejoicing everywhere.

This African revolutionary was no different from all the other revolutionaries who inscribed the words 'liberty,' 'justice' and 'progress' on their flags and then went on to kill, to torture and to suppress all living liberty in the name of their noble and human goal.

Ce qu'il y a en effet de frappant dans l'« accélération de l'histoire » que nous vivons, c'est que cette vitesse vertigineuse à laquelle le monde court vers l'avenir s'accompagne d'une absence de contrôle sur la direction de marche.

What progress requires inexorably of human beings and of continents is that they should renounce their strangeness, that they should break with mystery; and somewhere along that road is inscribed inexorably the end of the last elephant. The cultivated lands must encroach upon the forests, and the roads will bite more and more deeply into the quietude of the great herds. There will be less and less room for natural splendor. A pity.

Le paradoxe de la science est qu'il n'y a qu'une réponse à ses méfaits et à ses périls : encore plus de science.