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Quotes About Progress

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
~ Barack Obama
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
~ Bernard Goldberg
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
~ Bill Gates
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.
~ Bill McKibben
All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.
~ Blair Underwood
If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.
~ Brian Tracy
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
~ Bryan Adams
The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
~ Carl Sandburg
The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It's time we build a rocket and go to stay.
~ Chris Hadfield
Celebrate Earth Day! A time to recognize the gains we have made. A time to create new actions to accelerate environmental progress. Protect our planet not only on Earth Day, but everyday!
~ Ciaran Lynch
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
~ Claude Monet
It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.
~ Clifford D. Simak
To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?
~ Confucius
I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.
~ Cordell Hull
Small, seemingly insignificant steps completed consistently over time will create a radical difference
~ Darren Hardy
A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.
~ Dick Rutan
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
~ e. e. cummings
I'd go on record and say yes, I think it's time.
~ Earl Campbell
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Start working on whatever you hesitate Because there is an ending to every beginning. When you make it to the end, You will realize the hesitation was a waste of time.
~ David Wong
Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.
~ Harrison Ford
Time is the school in which we learn.
~ Joan Didion