Quotes About Progress

It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.

My black brothers and sisters—no one will know who we are…until we know who we are! We never will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

Mine was the same psychology that makes Negroes even today, though it bothers them down inside, keep letting the white man tell them how much "progress" they are making. They've heard it so much they've almost gotten brainwashed into believing it—or at least accepting it.

Negroes know what I'm talking about. Back then, the white man during the war was so pressed for personnel that he began letting some Negroes put down their buckets and mops and dust rags and use a pencil, or sit at some desk, or hold some 25 cent title.

Anytime you see someone more succesful than you are, the are doing something you aren't

Se você enfia uma faca de 20cm em minhas costas e puxa 10cm para fora, isso não é progresso. Se você puxa-la inteira para fora, ainda não seria progresso. O progresso é curar a ferida que o golpe fez. Ainda nem começaram a remover a faca. Eles nem admitem que a faca está lá

My whole life had been a chronology of -- changes .

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Once he is motivated no one can change more completely than a person who has been at the bottom.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.

you must always examine what's working, evolve your ideas, and change the way you do things.

Life grows relative to one's investment in it.

Keep in mind that the landscape is always changing; you must always examine what's working, evolve your ideas, and change the way you do things.

Cependant les années s'avançaient. Il fallait commencer à imiter les autres, leur ressembler.

Parce que c'est pendant qu'on calcule, qu'on analyse les pour et les contre, que la vie passe et qu'il ne se passe rien.

Without stupid, there is no plot.

Ongoing evaluation

Snakes shed their skin, cats their fur, manta rays their teeth. Man sheds used-up objects: he leaves an open Nesquik tin and a dirty glass on the kitchen counter, an open toothpaste tube, unmade beds, their sheets stained with urine; he leaves grandfather clocks, cigarette burns in the ashtrays, comics that have been scrawled on and books borrowed from the school library; he leaves clothes in the wardrobes and food in the fridge.

Things do not change; we change. —Henry David Thoreau, writer and philosopher T

But in reality what Einstein had done was devise a theory that was decades ahead of its time. Experimental measurements had to catch up to his model of gravity, which had been fashioned from pure intuitive thought.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.