Quotes About Progress

If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around

Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past.

If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you... you won't be able to walk.

It's all right. It's like stumbling on a rock on the roadside. It's petty...a small thing. The place you want to go...is more distant farther off. So...it's all right. You'll stand up. And you'll start walking. Soon...

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Solvitur Ambulando.

Je rêvai, non d'une ville figée, mais de la ville à venir.

Become who you want to be while you can enjoy it. Don't put off doing the work of becoming who you want to be. Waiting will not make it easier, and time is short.

country that doesn't grow its own wine grapes has no claim to civilisation.

He knew that to allow those actions to go on unchecked could allow future generations to keep falling and there might never be any correction.

Scientific advancement is never without loss.

Goals without deadlines aren't goals; they're merely directions.

Don't aim for perfection. Aim for progress. Learn to slow the process down when your adrenaline gets pumping.

Nothing fails like success. In other words, when a challenge in life is met by a response that is equal to it, you have success. But when the challenge moves to a higher level, the old, once successful response no longer works—it fails; thus, nothing fails like success.

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Podemos ver cómo una taza cae de la mesa y se rompe en pedazos, pero nunca podremos ver cómo una taza se recompone y vuelve a saltar a la mesa. Este aumento del desorden o entropía diferencia el pasado del futuro y de este modo otorga al tiempo una dirección. Stephen Hawking

dripping water wears away stone

Cada época es una esfinge, que se precipita al abismo en cuanto se ha resuelto su enigma. Heinrich Heine

He who thinks too long before taking the next step will spend his life standing on one leg.

I say the secret to longevity is longevity. Hang in there long enough and keep working. When I was a kid I thought I knew everything there was to know about the business and the more I work, the more I know how much more there is to know and how much more I have to learn.

You don't want things to be nice and settled. You think you do. But you don't.

There's always an element of caution when you say yes to projects, but what's unique about television is you oftentimes have no idea where it's going to go so there's a big leap of faith.

Impressed deep in the psyche of America, the most literate society ever founded, was the idea that you could improve yourself—morally, philosophically, financially—through the written word.

weak thought is always thought about its most recent developments.