Quotes About Progress

The preposterous obstinacy of these honest people in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway rather than take advantage of modern improvements, excited great mirth among our wiser brotherhood.

Let us not look back, the past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now?

in our day, the very A B C has become a science greatly too abstruse to be any longer taught by pointing a pin from letter to letter.

a boat towing a whale could go no faster than one mile per hour. It

Like it or not, the factories of New Haven, Hartford, Boston, Beverly, and Haverhill were the country's future, and Washington was all for it. —

Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted—a discussion point in the nature vs nurture debate which had not died in half a millennium.

Life is all about mistakes.It is constant change and growth

It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — celebrate your struggle.

It made Disney at once a nostalgist and a futurist, a conservative and a visionary.

the first sign of civilization is always trash.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

Walls don't fall without effort.

The past never changes—and from what I can see, neither does the future.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.

There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through and overcome.

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

Life was about forging time, not just passing time.

New Beginning to the same old story

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

We are not the same beings we once were. So then, if we are no longer human, what are we?