Quotes About Progress

Europeans—who generally like to think of themselves as being a pretty savvy lot—managed to forget and then rediscover this fact about vitamin C at least seven more times over the next five hundred years, including rediscoveries in 1593 CE, 1614 CE, 1707 CE, 1734 CE, 1747 CE, and 1794 CE, until the idea finally stuck in 1907.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. —You (also, Martin Luther King Jr.)

Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.

It's brought you from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age, and all the way into the Iron Age, which is pretty good for some weird dirt that you found down by the river.

The slowness of time will either benefit you or harm you.

Turn your dreams into goals, turn your goals into achievements.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.

Take small steps with a long-term perspective.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

If we get better, our customers will demand we get bigger.

Nothing blooms at the hands of the impatient.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause—that it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Bu hareketsizli?in,korkuya dayanan bu tereddüdün daha zararl? oldu?unu,insan münasebetlerinde bir noktada ta? kesilmi? gibi kal?namayaca??n?,ileriye at?lmayan her ad?m?n insan? geriye götürdü?ünü ve yakla?t?rmayan anlar?n muhakkak uzakla?t?rd???n? seziyor..

The road we embark on the day we are born is the road we travel until the day we die, and however we choose to divide it up, it's pure artifice

insan münasebetlerinde bir noktada ta? kesilmi? gibi kal?namayaca??n?, ileriye at?lmayan her ad?m?n insan? geriye götürdü?ünü ve yakla?t?rmayan anlar?n muhakkak uzakla?t?rd???n? karanl?k bir ?ekilde seziyor ve içimde sessizce yanan, fakat günden güne büyüyen bir endi?enin yer etmeye ba?lad???n? hissediyordum.