Quotes About Progress

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.

Every knock is a boost.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

Life for me is about movement.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout his life.

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

It's so much easier to measure life in experience points.

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.