Quotes About Progress

He who chooses the beggining of the road chooses the place it leads to

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to

Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.

To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know—and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of—a great many truths.

But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.

One of the most frequently used and useless phrases in education is, "I have so much to cover. How am I going to finish it by the end of the year?" Notice that the word I is used twice and the word student is never used.

have been more recently

could expect to receive $1.50 for a ten-hour day. By 1927 they were earning $4.00 for 8 hours.

All progress occurs because people dare to be different.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

Socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

I hope for some sort of peace—but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there'll be no reason for any of it.

Jerry had trouble imagining himself in his thirties, much less his seventies. What would 2024 look like? The politics would have to be better than today's. They couldn't very well be any worse!

Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday.

Give your goals a deadline and everything will fall in place. Goal Setting is the key to achieve success in anything you do.

Success can't be achieved without a purpose. Success cannot come to you . You need to GO to it. SUCCESS comes to those who first seek guidance, to make a decision, to take the right action. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. Success is a continuous process of improving what you do, everyday.

And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.