Quotes About Progress

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

To stay ahead, always have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

The world is not getting better by itself. Making the world a better place demands more and better leaders.

Given such strong defenses against change, fresh ideas come from those who do more than think outside the box. They think outside the building.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

In short, feminism has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of the brave women who fought its first battles. Its future in the new millennium is to face up to the problems of its success, and to see gender as just one possible reason for social and personal conflicts rather than an all-encompassing cause. But if it is going to be capable of making these changes, it will first have to let go of its sacred cows.

He rode into Haarlem the following afternoon with

Every gain, every success for women is taken to mean that men are being cheated and denigrated. To me it's healthier to turn the question around. While women were straining every muscle, nerve and bone for the last thirty years, while they labored to remake themselves, their lives and the world, what were twentieth-century men doing all this time? And how long will it take them to join in and support us?

Every revolution is a revolution of ideas-yet to innovate is not reform.

It is to be present to the way things are, including our feelings about the way things are. This practice can help us clarify the next step that will take us in the direction we say we want to go.

If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

Where is the electric socket for possibility, the access to the energy of transformation?

In writing their letters, I say to them, they are to place themselves in the future, looking back, and to report on all the insights they acquired and milestones they attained during the year as if those accomplishments were already in the past.

I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.

Michelangelo is often quoted as having said that inside every block of stone or marble dwells a beautiful statue; one need only remove the excess material to reveal the work of art within. If we were to apply this visionary concept to education, it would be pointless to compare one child to another. Instead, all the energy would be focused on chipping away at the stone, getting rid of whatever is in the way of each child's developing skills, mastery, and self-expression.

Minute by minute, a day passed.

To Delphine, the hesitation of March was cheering. March was all expectation, a gathering of power. Still cold but marginally warmer every day - a hopeful time of the year

New devils require new gods.

Things will improve when we start living on the top of the earth, on wind and light.

Walking is a feat of controlled falling. Like life, I guess.

He was upset when pious land-grabbers declared that the Will of God was somehow involved in so effectively destroying Indians who squatted in the path of progress. Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket.