Quotes About Progress

L'Histoire ne connaît pas de miracle.

Fred Vogelstein summed up iPhone's impact that day in his book Dogfight with a quote by Google engineer Chris DeSalvo: "We're going to have to start over.

In technology, failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end

Kepler was, as author Arthur Koestler called him, the "watershed" where the medieval world finally gave way to the modern.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.

People and places know greatness for a while, then decline.

Women like her looked at their world, rolled up their sleeves, and tried to make it better. Now

But you're right that all of us, Catholics, Arabs, Jews, have got to work out some sensible pattern of life for the world, or new alignments will occur so radical that no one here can visualize

How a work of art ends is just as important as how it begins. A good opening entices us, but a strong finish nails down the experience.

James A. Michener

Thus he started his education, that marvelous, growing, aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of proved experience from which to function, and he was suddenly tired of Yale

That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

Aceia care uit? trecutul sunt blestema?i s?-l repete, dar cei care-?i amintesc viitorul pot s? se preg?teasc? pentru orice."

One thing is for sure: Testing must not create friction that slows down innovation and development.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves;

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt

The studied elimination of non-essentials from one's daily life is a vital factor in all great achievement.

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. That is why they remain bound.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.