Quotes About Progress

The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent—or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.

true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

Man's First Mistake: The Wheel

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social and political movements in American history.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

I wish I could say that I'm totally healed; but that would be a lie. This much I can say: I'm as straightforward and transparent as I'm capable of being. In the recovery process, I've searched relentlessly for total healing. I don't know if that labels me quick or slow, truly open or slightly self-deceived.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

It's too late. He's already learned how not to drown.

She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back

His life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two.

It happened so slowly that you might not even notice it at all, like the sky turning from dusk to dark.

Once she was behind, how could she catch up?

Change doesn't just happen," her mother had always said, echoing the Shaker motto. "It has to be planned.

Each test score had been lower than the last, reading like a strange weather forecast: ninety in September, mid-eighties in October, low seventies in November, sixties before Christmas.

There is nowhere to go but on.