Quotes About Progress

once we had developed intelligence we weren't satisfied with the world as we found it;

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

history is the negation of nature.

To combat cultural genocide one needs a critique of civilization itself. -Gary Snyder

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

We are complete in the womb itself, she thought in terror. We only unfold.

Durante años vivimos al galope —dijo Frances— y de pronto las dudas nos asaltan, el paisaje se ensombrece, nos sentimos perdidas y solas, y repentinamente tomamos conciencia de que tendremos que seguir avanzando a tientas porque ya no podemos volver sobre nuestros propios pasos.

I am trying to bring change to my people, Lara, and change is rarely bloodless.

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Paleolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

There is no end," I said. "Only the beginning of something else.

Elizabeth Winthrop

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

It isn't where you came frome; it's where you're going that counts.

It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.

The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs.

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

I would rather be faithful to my future than to my past, if it becomes a matter of choice.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.