Quotes About Progress

Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

it seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

it's often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world.

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.

If you wait until you know everything, you never do anything.

I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to keep your mind on your line, as the saying went.

Human beings remain grubs all the lives.

But always a giant, long before his body showed it.

In Russia you learn patience, said Ivan. In America you learn action.

Europe was already Europe.

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.

Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned.

Learn from them, because I will always be there, one step ahead of you, programming more difficult and advanced patterns into the computer so that your next battle is more difficult, so that you are pushed

I think we've taken a step toward something truly magnificent. But humankind almost never forgives true greatness.

As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generations, giving birth to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire.