Quotes About Progress

Sometimes knowledge impedes change: We know more but do less.

As far back as man's history goes the growth of police powers immediately preceded and caused the fall and destruction of each culture.

John Newton, "I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.

Nothing characterizes successful organizations more than their willingness to abandon what made them successful.

Until structures are in place for great ideas to be implemented, even the best of them will wind up on a treadmill that may speed up or slow down but will go nowhere.

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.

Taking my cue from the progress of meditation, I have found that the first task of working through from a Buddhist perspective is to uncover how the spatial metaphor of self is being used defensively to keep key aspects of the person at bay.

Many people, in both the East and the West, believe that shutting down the ego, and the thinking mind, is the ultimate purpose of meditation. The Dalai Lama, rather forcefully, always argues that this is a grave misunderstanding. Ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope. We can be at its mercy or we can learn to mold it according to certain guiding principles. Intelligence is a key ally in this shaping process, something to be harnessed in the service of one's progress.

The Way Out Is Through

I know that what's done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is done. No sense living in the past. The only way for me is forward. Always forward.

In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

Time is only the relationship between the different things changing

She thought about the men with bows and arrows. They were really here, weren't they, once upon a time. And mammoths and ladies in crinolines and Spitfires overhead. Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing becoming another thing. Like a flame on the end of a match. Wood turning into smoke. If only we could burn brighter. A barn roaring in the night.

Y la gente que cree en Dios piensa que Dios ha puesto seres humanos en la Tierra porque piensa que los seres humanos son el mejor animal, pero los seres humanos sólo son un animal y evolucionarán hasta ser otro animal, y ese animal será más listo y meterá a los seres humanos en un zoo, como nosotros metemos a los chimpancés y a los gorilas en el zoo.

One voice can change a room. And if it can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change the world.

Everything has changed but nothing has changed.

I like the race, rather than the winning. Do you really? Yes, I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

Nothing is born as strong as it can become.

Thinking the way you've always thought and doing things you've always done will only lead to more of the same. You need to be disruptive!

Is an ending really another beginning?

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, the Comte de Mirabeau, the man who had defied Louis XVI by opening the National Assembly, said, "In the final analysis, the people will judge the revolution by this fact alone—does it take more or less money? Are they better off? Do they have more work? And is that work better paid?

Both the steamboat service to Albany and the Erie Canal were destined to be swiftly fleeting marvels, eclipsed by the next idea. Only seven years after the Seneca Chief brought whitefish to New York Harbor, the city's railroad age had begun. The