Quotes About Progress

Things won't change much and things won't change fast.

If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately

Our enemy is the old school of thought, or rather, the people who defend the old school of thought. They do this in the name of antique Indian policies, culture and values.

This is not a story. There is no romance in here, nor are there page-turning, thrilling moments. Rather, this book is about a dream both you and I share—to make India a better place.

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As pessoas têm medo das mudanças. Eu tenho medo que as coisas nunca mudem.

I know that my race must change.

And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure… it does mean you haven't succeeded yet.

Failure is not frailty. Success never guarantees.

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

I'll tell you how the Sun rose – A Ribbon at a time....

That teacher is most successful who makes herself progressively unnecessary to her pupils because she develops in them the power to do without her.

INVENTOR, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.

The greatest task before civilisation at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men; and if civilisation fails at the task, then without doubt it and its makers will go down to a common destruction.

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

The human mechanism is marvelous. But why not — it is the result of three-and-a-half billion years of tinkering.

We are trapped by our conditioning in a world of steel and plastic, asphalt and concrete. We are removed from the earth and getting farther and farther from it daily.

Man, with his metal beaver-teeth chops down the world's trees saws, whines, grinds — loudly without a care but human "needs"

There is no such thing as the future until it is the present.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.