Quotes About Progress

It is dangerous ... to apply to the future inductive arguments based on past experience.

You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading…

Hope is not a change method!

But most importantly, by the late '40s, technically trained dancers were plentiful—a far cry from the self-taught hoofers of the '20s and '30s. This was fortunate not only for Pan, whose work demanded highly skilled and versatile dancers,

The first kind builds character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.

To old times, May they never come again...' 'Old time past and better times to come!

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable.

Growing fast in sawdust

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Let us, however, remember this truth: No one has made much progress in the school of Christ who doesn't look forward joyfully both to his death and the day of his final resurrection.

He who is most deeply abased and alarmed, by the consciousness of his disgrace, nakedness, want, and misery, has made the greatest progress in the knowledge of himself.

If only we were convinced deep in our hearts that persecutions are among God's blessings, what progress we should make in the knowledge of divine truth! What

This renewal, indeed, is not accomplished in a moment, a day, or a year, but by uninterrupted, sometimes even by slow progress God abolishes the remains of carnal corruption in his elect, cleanses them from pollution, and consecrates them as his temples, restoring all their inclinations to real purity, so that during their whole lives they may practice repentance, and know that death is the only termination to this warfare.

It is not denied that there is room for improvement; but what I maintain is, that the nearer any one approaches in resemblance to God, the more does the image of God appear in him. That believers may attain to it, God assigns repentance as the goal towards which they must keep running during the whole course of their lives.

But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!