Quotes About Progress

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

Meeting smaller emergencies and learning to deal with them had given me the confidence to deal with this larger emergency. So, little by little, I found out how to do things. After each catastrophe you don't worry so much the next time, and each time you emerge stronger from your victory.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can grow only as long as we are interested.

America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other achievements amount to nothing.

We cannot shut the windows and pull down the shades; we cannot say, "I have learned all I need to know; my opinions are fixed on everything. I refuse to change or to consider these new things." Not today. Not any more.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Every time you meet a crisis and live through it, you make it simpler for the next time.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democrac.

None of us can afford to stop learning or to check our curiosity about new things, or to lose our humility in the face of new situations.

It is, however, the better part of wisdom to regard the mistake as experience which will help guide you in the future, a part, though a painful part, of your education.

Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.

There is no experience from which you can't learn something.

The function of democratic living is not to lower standards but to raise those that have been too low.

Do one thing every day that scares you."-Eleanor Roosevelt 6/3/17

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

Do one thing every day that scares you.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.

That year it seemed to me that I expanded like pizza dough.

and there those who knew how to dance danced and those who didn't learned.

had always studied in disorder.