Quotes About Progress

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.

Nothing seems so completely outmoded as the modernities of yesterday.

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

Rome was not built in one day.

The tide tarrieth no man.

Ill weed groweth fast.

The human soul knows that growth is the only reason for its existence. [Hopkins quoting S. Bellow]

Biological determinism is a blight on science. It implies that the way things are is the way they must be. [...] This position is wrong, both empirically and morally.

Traditionally, common social location meant that the two partners used the same family name. In recent years alternative patterns of naming have been developed, for reasons which are more convincing to feminists than they are to genealogists or to mail carriers.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome'.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement, prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Hispanics are faring quite poorly relative to most other groups, and Asians are faring quite well, as they surpass whites by a comfortable margin.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernhard Shaw

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Acknowledge your mistakes, correct them, and go on, but take the risk of enjoying what you've got, and be brave enough to change what doesn't work.