Quotes About Progress

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Great innovators like Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie didn't rely on government. There was hardly any of it in those days. More recently, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison used genius to put brand-new ideas into production.

Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.

Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the 19th century as it actually did. You can get rid of Thomas Edison or Louis Pasteur; take your pick.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

As a theoretician, I am proud to be part of a counter revolution... discovering that quantum field theory language was not dead and finished but had not really been explored thoroughly enough.

Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.

Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though.