Quotes About Progress

The thing about failure is that you never know how close you were to success.

Once you take your foot off the gas, your life will elevate.

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.

All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.

I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means.

I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change.

As with the terms "physics" and "science," so too with terms like "cosmology" and "psychology," the wisest policy is, in my view, not to quibble about contemporary usage but rather to use the best modern labels, qualify them as one sees fit, and then to get on with matters of substance.

Having redefined "success" as the achievement of dramatic technological progress and in general the manipulation of nature to achieve human ends, they essentially won a game the Scholastics were not trying to play in the first place.