Quotes About Progress

It's like the future is a building you put up on the foundations of the past.

I've succeeded, I guess, but sometimes maybe to succeed is to fail

Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads forth.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

We're still waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Ideas shape the course of history.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for very long that final civil war between the forces of Reaction and the despairing convulsions of Revolution, before which the horrors of the late German war will fade into nothing, and which will destroy, whoever is victor, the civilization and the progress of our generation.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilisation.

But if America recalls for a moment what Europe has meant to her and still means to her, what Europe, the mother of art and of knowledge, in spite of everything, still is and still will be, will she not reject these counsels of indifference and isolation, and interest herself in what may prove decisive issues for the progress and civilization of all mankind?

La cosa importante per il governo non è fare ciò che gli individui fanno già, e farlo un po' meglio o un po' peggio, ma fare ciò che presentemente non si fa del tutto.

It is not sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be sufficiently better to make up for the evils of transition