Quotes About Progress

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.

I'm not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

If you behind me, I'm not going to look back and try and figure out what you're doing behind me.

You always put some goal in your mind and you try to reach it. If you don't reach it, that's fine because you at least had something to look forward to.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.