Quotes About Progress

But to act, most of us must first overcome the fears that have blocked our creativity in the past.

I'm quite comfortable with making the odd mistake, if it comes in the pursuit of new opportunities and new ideas Rob Fyfe, Air New Zealand CEO

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Start with a growth mindset, the deep-seated belief that your true potential is still unknown. That you are not limited to only what you have been able to do before.

That is the surprising, compelling mathematics of innovation: if you want more success, you have to be prepared to shrug off more failure.

Just as writer's block happens when writers stop writing, so, too, does innovation grind to a halt when prototypes stop being built. When the muse fails you, don't mope at your desk. Make something.

Innovation is now recognized as the single most important ingredient in any modern economy.

it had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness

She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.

I'm just saying people don't always make the right choices in life. That doesn't mean they have to be stuck with them.

the world she'd been raised to live in no longer existed.

I've paid my dues," I told him. "I've learned a lot from Jack Weede, and from you, and I've formed strong working relationships throughout the building. With all due respect, I believe I'm the most qualified person to lead Green Meadow High School into the twenty-first century.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES, our shadows grow longer. At night, in the dark, we become our shadows.

Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw

The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?

Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a package. Twenty centuries under our belts and where do we go from here?

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

Well, history isn't ever going to end, happily or unhappily. And history is ending every second - happily for some of us, unhappily for others, happily one second, unhappily the next. History is always ending and always not ending, and both ways there is nothing to wait for

Wasn't it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual finds facilities for practice?