Quotes About Progress

Shijun, we can't go back.

The times are rushing ahead. This has already caused damage, and there is still more destruction to come. One day, human civilization... will be a thing of the past.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it's rarely a straight line.

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

Time passes. That's for sure.

At the very least, let them know what you've done.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

Live life like Janus, the two faced gods of the gate, look at past and at the same time the future. Not to remember past hurts and failures but to enable you get to the future

I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it now: it just isn't our century.

I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

Being so eager to please, we're not easy to liberate. We're too aware of what others need. Yet our intuition also picks up on the inner question that must be answered. These two strong, conflicting currents may buffet us for years. Don't worry if your progress toward liberation is slow, for it's almost inevitable.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.

The pursuit of wholeness is really a kind of circling closer and closer through different meanings, different voices. One never arrives, yet gets a better and better idea of that which is at the center.

In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it." For some of us that curriculum is the equivalent of graduate study at Oxford!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) : is the study of how to make computers do things which, at the moment, people do better.

I got a computer. I wrote an apology note to my VCR for ever thinking it was difficult. You find someone in this country who can print out an envelope. Maybe the fifth envelope, but you have to kill four to get to the fifth one.

The people who invented nonalcoholic beer are working on liver without vitamins.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The cure for grief is motion.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.