Quotes About Progress

No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

...the snail trail of history...

A new broom sweeps clean but the old broom knows the corners.

Sometimes clean feels empty. A bit of clutter and dirt gladdens the heart and affirms a life in progress.

The geometry of human progress is an expanding circle of compassion. Every advance in thinking has shown that our relationships extend further than we thought.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his behind.

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

So the little thing grew bigger. He was healthy and normal, ate regularly, slept long hours, and yet the growing little thing was becoming an obsession. WORK PERFORMED. The phrase haunted his brain.

You can no more make water run up hill than can you cause the tide of economic evolution to flow back in its channel along the way it came.

A shout from Francois hailed his appearance. "Wot I say?" the dog-driver cried to Perrault. "Dat Buck for sure learn queek as anyt'ing.

Quando quer que um homem surgisse e quisesse ir adiante, todos os que ficaram parados no tempo diziam que ele estava regredindo e devia ser morto. E a gente pobre ajudava a apedrejá-lo, pois era tola. Todos nós éramos tolos, exceto os que engordavam e não trabalhavam. Os tolos eram chamados de sábios, e os sábios eram apedrejados. Homens que trabalhavam não tinham o suficiente para comer, e homens que não trabalhavam comiam demais.

But I ain't got to the point yet. Here it is. I want to make my way to the kind of life you have in this house. There's more in life than booze, an' hard work, an' knockin' about. Now, how am I goin' to get it? Where do I take hold an' begin? I'm willin' to work my passage.

Instinct and law demanded of him obedience.  But growth demanded disobedience.

Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it. He is absolutely certain that civilization and progress rest on his shoulders and upon the shoulders of the small group of men like him.

La raza humana está destinada a internarse más y más en la noche de los tiempos primitivos, hasta que vuelva a empezar su sangrante marcha hacia la nueva civilización.

That is new-womanish talk," he frowned. "Equal rights, the ballot, and all that.

La raza humana está condenada a hundirse cada vez más en la noche primitiva antes de recomenzar algún día un nuevo ascenso sangriento hacia la civilización.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, 1816

The truth is that we've always been greedy and stupid. We have no imagination, and the only reason we've survived this long is that we produce just enough smart people to keep us going.

you can't have an effective bonus program if you don't have a forecasting system that's taking people forward to where they want

THE SEVENTH HIGHER LAW IS: When You Raise the Bottom, the Top Rises.

If you want people to grow, you have to let them take risks, and you have to let them fail.

We lost the wild bit by bit for ten thousand years and forgave each loss and then forgot.