Quotes About Progress

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think it's time to rebuild America.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes.