Quotes About Progress

We each live in our own time...And we must do the best we can with our time. Those who came before weren't as lucky as us and we aren't as lucky as some who may come later. We must still live in our own time and do the best we can.

All of flying is easy. Just takes learning. Like everything else. Like everything else.

up. With it came some warmth, small bits of it at first, and with the heat came

The vast country is still there, but it has somehow been altered by intrusions, peopled to death. It is all gone, all changed, all tamed and pacified and cleaned and boiled and sanitized and made healthy and politically correct.

The biggest advances are not made by being a great teacher; they are made by being a great student.

I thought I was good after a few years. After ten years I realized I was still improving.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

in the bathroom where we Post-Human Services men took our lengthy organic shits, straining to be free of whatever greenery tormented us. On

They drove to a mall in a former industrial building called Ponce City Market, which was like Chelsea Market in New York, only it was in Atlanta. They climbed up the elevated tracks to a new park called the BeltLine, which was just like the High Line in New York, only it was also in Atlanta.

what used to be the Friendly's restaurant but

Each time you go that road it gets more straight.

First, he claims many people feel a need for personal growth in a Christian way of life.

Believing that spirituality is vital for growth and essential for dealing with life's problems, many individuals are pursuing a journey of spiritual growth.

To sum up, while we do not seek to instruct the reader, we should feel rewarded for our efforts if we can persuade him to practice an exercise at which we are a master: to laugh at oneself. No progress is possible in the acquisition of objective knowledge without this self-critical irony.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Images discovered by men evolve slowly, painfully; hence Jacques Bousquet's profound remark: A new image costs humanity as much labor as a new characteristic costs a plant.

Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root.

We humans have a long and wonderful history of transcending our beliefs about what's possible.

You cannot grow without growing inside.

Everything said in the beginning must be said better than in the beginning.

Most jobs I've had have been variations on hunter-gatherer and farmer. I was one of the first to say Hey, if we grow our own food, we won't have to hunt it down all the time. Mostly, I was just tired of moving around constantly, but you have to admit it was a pretty good idea.)

always hire people who are smarter and better than you are and learn with them.

After all, though our yesterdays may be different, we all share the same tomorrow.

You have to know your past if you want to create a future.