Quotes About Progress

Abandon your fear. Look forward. Move forward and never stop. You'll age if you pull back. You'll die if you hesitate. -Zangetsu

Abandon your fear, move forward and never stop. Retreat and you will age. Hesitate and you will die.

The will to go forward will be your guide. Have no doubt. Have no fear. Do not stop. Do not look back. Do not think of those you are leaving behind. Just...go forward.

There is only one enemy. And you are also alone. What are you afraid of? Forget the fear. Look forward. Walk forth. Never ever stop. Turning back will make you weak. Cowardice will cause you death." - Zangetsu

Even without a form we will never stop walking.

They're all moving forward. Neither Shuhei nor Renji were at the company barracks. They're probably somewhere sharpening their skills right now. I should be too. You're gone, but you didn't leave anything to remember you by. I never liked that about you. But… if you had left something behind…I probably wouldn't have been able to move on. You probably knew that about me. Thanks, Gin. I always liked that about you.

In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

From 1776 to 1976 just five books reigned over economics in nearly unbroken succession: Smith's Wealth of Nations, Ricardo's Principles, Mill's Principles, Marshall's Principles, and Samuelson's Economics. What they lack in imaginative titles, they make up in endurance.

The production of knowledge itself points, often despite itself, toward a better future.

Any return to the past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.

On the Cancer Frontier

He notes that it remains the cancer of the mental health world: We are close to finding a cure, but not close enough for those who do not respond quickly to drugs or therapy.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, the cooks took a little more time with the meals, and the technicians tightened the bolts just a little more. Their ship was no longer a cripple, and pride broke out in the crew like a rainbow after a summer shower.

But human motivation is also a thing of the mind, and fear has never been the strongest emotion. Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress.

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You are never satisfied, Comrade Captain. I suppose it is men like you who force progress upon us all.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher

Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.

Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Once, when I was young, I believed in democracy. When I was a little older, I believed in oligarchy, government by the enlightened few; after that, in monarchy, the rule of the philosopher-king. Now I believe only in drainage, public sanitation and clean water.

In fact, as they will be delighted to tell you, Taunton is no longer a one-horse town; these days, they have a bicycle as well . . .

The truth is, my life never went according to plan, or a plan, or anything resembling a plan. It just sort of sprawled. Some lucky people have lives like a new colony, where the public buildings and houses and streets and markets and town walls are all laid out and completed before the first settler moves in. The rest of us are like old villages which grew up haphazard, strung out along a road or squashed in between two mountains.