Quotes About Progress

Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.

Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

As cultural politics change, museums change with them.

India is not an underdeveloped country but a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

History belongs in the past; but understanding it is the duty of the present.

I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself.

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized

We carry with us the weight of the past, and because we do not have a finely developed sense of history and historicism, it is a past that is still alive in our present. We wear the dust of history on our foreheads, and the mud of the future on our feet.

Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time. Ask Columbus.

Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the

One of the more difficult questions I used to find myself being asked as a United Nations official, especially when I had been addressing a generalist audience, was: What is the single most important thing that can be done to improve the world?... If I had to pick one thing we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra: Educate girls.

Shashi Tharoor

history is neither for excuses nor for revenge

a highly developed country of the past, in an advanced state of decay).

Ugliness is halfway to beauty.

the Hindu did not think in terms of good and evil. 'Evil has reference to the distance which good has to traverse. Ugliness is halfway to beauty. Error is a stage on the road to truth.

Error is a stage on the road to truth.

alone producing over sixty percent more manufactured goods than the whole Confederacy

career-interruption event

You didn't do anything illegal, and you shouldn't be penalized just because the technology outpaced the theology.

too. He shoved me to get me going and we started to walk. My mind was

In secrecy, in silence, a whole race may be destroyed without notice. Whole cultures and species have been destroyed while men smiled and spoke of economics, of employment, of progress, of the welfare of mankind. Is a threat less deadly because it does not scream and rage and threaten force of arms?

But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?

And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.