Quotes About Progress

ANY NATION THAT FAILS TO LEARN FROM HISTORY IS DOOMED TO REPEAT THAT HISTORY.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

All science is a two-edged sword. It is pure only in the mind, at conception, as an idea, an equation, or just some new way of looking at things. But once it's out there in the world, it becomes whatever the world wants it to be. Germ warfare, nuclear holocaust, or a cure for cancer.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

We shouldn't make decisions based on feelings alone but rather should make decisions based on creating a positive difference for the future. If it's a good, logical move, or even if it simply interests you, commit to starting and taking it one step at a time. Get started, because the passion you're looking for may be just a few steps away. Passion FOLLOWS commitment, not the other way around.

We all walk the assigned path.

Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.

Where other people will see obstacles, even blank walls, you'll soon start to see pathways you can use to get where you want to go. It's awesome.

Next out of the car

The character of the older flats battling against the utilitarian nature of the contemporary ones.

Okay, he told himself, enough Memory Lane crap. Let's get back to

Well, we live in a world that's gone crazy with technology, and some of that technology can be harnessed to do more than it's intended to do.

instantly, and Danny quickly saved the work he had done on the

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.

We live our comfortable lives in the shadow of a disaster of our own making. That disaster is being brought about by the very things that allow us to live our comfortable lives.