Quotes About Progress

when we feel we can make a difference, and we're given the means to do so, positive outcomes can happen that in turn allow hope to prevail.

Someone once wondered why it is that if a work of Man is destroyed, it is called vandalism, but if a work of nature, of God, is destroyed it is so often called progress.

One could argue that the human intellect was the greatest mistake in evolution—a mistake that is now threatening all life on the planet.

Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the moon and was closely followed by Buzz Aldrin.

But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.

He said that history takes two steps forward and one step back.

The only thing I know for certain is that everything passes. The good times, the bad times.

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

sometimes, in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.

If we keep doing what we've been doing, we will get what we have always got, and that isn't enough. I want something different for my life.

The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.

The definition of insanity is doing what you've always done and expecting different results.

The definition of insanity is doing what you've always done and expecting different results.

It has long been recognized that getting an education is effective for bettering oneself and one's chances in the world. But a degree and an education are not necessarily synonymous.

And so, each day, several thousand more acres of our countryside are eaten by the bulldozers, covered by pavement, dotted with suburbanites who have killed the thing they thought they came to find.

Another thing: a living culture is forever changing, without losing itself as a framework and context of change. The reconstruction of a culture is not the same as its restoration.

Neue Ideen brauchen alte Gebäude

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

The task is to promote the city life of city people, housed, let us hope, in concentrations both dense enough and diverse enough to offer them a decent chance at developing city life.

One seemingly logical step is taken after another, each step plausible and apparently defensible in itself; and the peculiar result is a form of city which is not easier to use and to get around in, but on the contrary more scattered, more cumbersome, more time wasting, expensive and aggravating for cross-use.

Ideas not only alter the world constantly, they make it constantly.

we human beings have the blessed creative capacity to do so much better. So why don't we?" 2.

like a man who has jumped off a diving board, but then, through force of will, lowers himself inch by inch into the pool.

It is hard to know whether an air of self-confidence precedes or follows success.