Quotes About Progress

How do you get people to want to live in time, to have a sense of the importance of time for growth, development, of the need for ups-and-downs, of non-homogenized development? [...] A revolution in the U.S. is only going to be led and made by people with some sense of the thickness of time, of time as duration, of time as heterogenous, of development through contradiction, not in a straight line.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the stories we live by.

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

It takes a lifetime to organise your life

You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting." Pick

The discipline process is simply, 'Here is our standard and here is your performance. We've got a gap. As your leader, I am here to understand the reasons for the gap and help you to raise your game. If the gap does not go away, I will have to escalate.

simply ask five open-ended questions which they know in advance. Question one, what is going well? Two, what is not going well? Three, what are you doing to improve as a leader? Four, what are you doing to improve the organization? And, five, what can I do to help?

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

The notion that we've made vast moral progress and are now a less violent species is belied by our awesome powers of destruction, our military might, police forces as well-armed as soldiers. Without the threat of such violent force behind it, all law would be meaningless. I prefer stories that remind us of that. At its core, history is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

To be human, therefore, is to be on the way to becoming something else.

the way evolution has always worked, a "secular" process in which life's most sacred secret is embedded.

those devoted to Jesus of Galilee ultimately made an unnecessary enemy of one whose very name most eloquently honors him: Galileo Galilei.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

I know I feel satisfied with myself, & that is one step, & a great one, to getting comfortable if not happy again.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

The opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a few years all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals.

Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.

DOES THE PROGRESS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE TEND TO GIVE ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE OPINION OF NECESSITY (OR DETERMINISM) OVER THAT OF THE CONTINGENCY OF EVENTS AND THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL? NO. - ESSAY FOR THE ERANUS CLUB ON SCIENCE AND FREE WILL