Quotes About Progress

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

You make the best decisions you can make in the time you have to make them, and you move on.

Je ne crois pas qu'avoir étudié soit une si grande chose si l'on n'étudie plus. »

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

In political practice, we must be both 'the arrow and the bull's eye', because the old worldview is also still present within us.

The world is full of new developments and love must also be something that innovates. Risk and adventure must be re-invented against safety and comfort.

We need to kill Aristotle!

The spiritual decadence of man, according to Hindu tradition, goes hand in hand with progress in metallurgy from the Golden Age (Satyä Yugä) to the Iron Age (Kali Yugä).

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.

I've been an improviser since I was in my twenties. There's really no failing in improv. You just go on to the next thing.

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do. And if we don't grow, we decay. It's that simple. Nothing in our universe is static.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.

Our history is not our destiny.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.