Quotes About Progress

You can stare into the past but only your future is within your control.

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Science is insulating man from life - separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetises his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

Snoopy: So this is the last day of the year. Another complete year gone by and what have I accomplished this year that I haven't accomplished every other year? Nothing! (He smiles.) How consistent can you get?

How is the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter, I can't nail straight, I can't saw straight and I always split the wood... I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design... So, all things considered, it's coming along okay!

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!

What in the world is the matter with you ?!" "I'm a new feminist!

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better." I nodded. "Hearts are like that.

somebody gets better the more you do it. You might think an old

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

The requirement is that we turn back. Pivot on our heels and put one foot in front of the other.

But time does heal. Not like we think it does, not like we would—from the front—but more from the back or side or someplace we can't see it coming. It bubbles up beneath and rises all around.

down one giant spiral

If you're riding a dead horse… dismount.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

We were born to move—not merely to be transported,

immobility is to the human body what rust is to the classic car.

Sometimes it takes an entire generation to see the life lost between freeway off-ramps.

Britton is one of those people whose ideas seem too theoretical, too pie-in-the-sky to matter, until suddenly they change the world.

engines of wealth; they must be viewed as systems that should be shaped to improve human well-being.