Quotes About Progress

Got to go on, haven't we? Life goes on.

The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want.

There is a chasm between a world that quickly breaks the link between modern economic growth and carbon emissions, and a world that fails to do so. The side of the chasm we are now on is a dangerous place. It would be reckless beyond the normal human irrationality for us to stay where we are.

In 1471, as the first printed volumes appeared in Florence, the poet and scholar Angelo Poliziano—Lorenzo de' Medici's librarian and tutor to his children—complained: "Now the most stupid ideas can, in a moment, be transferred into a thousand volumes and spread abroad."16

Many experts considered its erection an impossible feat.

Such artistic forays into the countryside had been made easier by the invention, in 1824, of metal tubes for oil paints, which replaced the messy and awkward pig bladders in which artists of previous generations had kept their paints; and by the introduction of collapsible three-legged stools and portable easels, both of which could be carried into the countryside by the artist.18

The city started sooner than I expected it to. In ten years it had crawled out along the highway, covering new farms with the concrete squares of suburban developments. On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.

only if the past is understood can the future be navigated

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Push yourself out of your comfort zone and see what you are really capable of.

the most wonderful discoveries that have ever been made by mankind always happen when someone decides to believe in the impossible. 8 JULY 'The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything.

The fact is that the future will not be a continuation of the past. It will be a series of discontinuities. And only by accepting these discontinuities and doing something about them will we stand any chance of success and survival in the twenty-first century.

Life is like a seesaw, a game where the movement and the excitement come from a balance of opposites, because it will always inevitably be full of paradox. I believe that the key to progress and even to survival in life and work is to be aware that contradictions can coexist, and to learn to live with them.

For us, it's all progress from infancy to adulthood—language, walking, winking, sex.

Only the arrogance of the modern mentality, worshipping at the altar of the church of progress, would reject and deny the history and virtues of hemp.

To engage with the Church's past is to see something of the Church's future.

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.

Anyone can make an athlete tired, but not everyone can make that athlete faster.

The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones who reflected on what they had not yet achieved. But

and here was a truly pleasant surprise—they also got better at other things. The students who did the study-discipline program reported doing physical workouts a bit more often and cutting down on impulsive spending. Those in the fitness and money-management programs said they studied more diligently. Exercising self-control in one area seemed to improve all areas of life.

When you were out, you were out, and the team, your friends, whatever you were dealing with moved on—as you did.

Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.