Quotes About Progress

La única forma de alcanzar el poder en un mundo que avanza demasiado rápido es aprender a tener calma.

A thoroughly loving person is like an evolutionary mutation, manifesting

There's a profound satisfaction in finally giving up something meaningless, for no other reason than that we did it to the max and now we're ready to move on.

Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution.

We need to take an evolutionary leap forward

we need to do more than just whine about that. We need to course-correct.

America will not move forward into a new era of greatness unless we atone for the militaristic madness that has gripped our country in the years since World War II. We fought that war because we needed to.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.

los sentimientos de fracaso se presentan en todas nuestras vidas y que lo que importa es en quién nos convirtamos como resultado.

The world will be different for our daughters and sons because of our tears, our bravery, and our breakthroughs.

The biggest problem we have collectively is that our politics lag behind.

Si queremos alcanzar logros en el mundo exterior, tendremos que lograr progresos en nuestro interior. Porque el nivel de conciencia es el nivel de la causa; resolver

According to the laws of evolution, a species develops in a certain direction until that development is no longer well adapted for survival. At that point, a mutation occurs. Although the mutation doesn't represent the majority of the species, it represents the line of evolution better adapted for the species' survival. The descendants of the mutation are then the ones to survive.

Some might have said that he was color-struck, but color had nothing to do with it, it was all about where he had come from and where he wanted to go—it had been all about the climb.

Though I loved the wired world, the new-wave librarians, the avatars and activists, I turned into a dinosaur in that library. I couldn't help it; I was an old-fashioned writer who loved the ancient books summoned via pneumatic tubes, the archives, the quiet. I had found something rare there: an inexhaustible wonder.

I understood—I thought I understood—then things changed, or I learned the next thing that made everything I knew before obsolete.

Where you're going is no better than where you are

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.

Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.

It seems these days as if the right to bear arms is considered by some a suitable remedy for the tendency of others to act on their freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and especially of religion in ways and degrees these arms-bearing folk find irksome. Reverence for the sacred integrity of every pilgrim's progress through earthly life seems to be eroding.

We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.

At this time the country needs to regain equilibrium and direction. It needs to recover the memory of the best it has done, and then try to do it all better.

Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being—for those who create and master them, at least. Now