Quotes About Progress

We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

I would never make a lion, I knew that; but I might pick up a small gain here and there in the attempt.

He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul!

Ramona je ušutjela a Herzog je rekao: - Istina je - još mnogo toga trebam nau?iti. Ali marljiv sam. Radim na tom i stalno se osje?a napredak. Vjerujem da ?u biti u odli?noj formi na samrtnoj postelji. Oni koji su dobri umiru mladi, ali ja sam bio pošte?en toga da se izgra?ujem da bih mogao završiti život dobar kao an?eo.

But we mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of the intellectuals.

We are survivors, in this age, so theories of progress ill become us, because we are intimately acquainted with the costs. To realize that you are a survivor is a shock.

what are the generations for, please explain to me? Only to repeat fear and desire without a change? This cannot be what the thing is for, over and over and over. Any good man will try to break the cycle.

But such vexations always filled me with energy as well. And if I later became such a formidable mass of credentials it was because I put such slights to good use. I avenged myself by making progress.

The subject of all this talk is, ultimately, survival—the survival of the decent society created in Israel within a few decades.

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.

Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. Sometimes understanding comes and the temporary words can be replaced with words that have more meaning. More often, however, the patch words will take on a life of their own and no one will remember that they were only intended to be placeholders.

Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners.

If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself.

For our purposes, let's say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it's a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal.