Quotes About Progress

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.