Quotes About Progress

American actors, historical, familial, political, theatrical, move blindly ahead toward a future that never is, and never can be, clear.

We were the generation psychoanalysts tried to change.

We are no longer animals but we are certainly not yet men.

Politics is a living thing, and living things die.

Face the facts. If you do not begin to pray, you will not be any further along with the Lord next year than you are right now.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!

Ethics change with technology.

But success and failure reveal nothing about our spirituality.

What is the dirty little secret of innovation? It's simply this: most innovations fail.

I'm often asked how in the world we can develop life-changing sticky relationships in just ten weeks. Fact is, we can't. But by stringing together enough ten-week sessions, we end up with something much deeper than we'd ever get with a mere six-month or one-year commitment—and very little weaseling.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.

You can't step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.

Your situation will improve right after YOU improve.

Kaip popierius, ant kurio rašome, kadaise buvo r?stai, taip ir žmon?s tur?jo daug k? patirti, kad pasiekt? dabarties tašk?.

We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!

But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

There were days Gabriel wondered why they didn't just hand everything over to women and be done with it.