Quotes About Progress

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

You don't know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there until we replace all these jobs that have been lost.

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I'll be seeking professional help with regards to alcohol and, until myself and the club feel this is under control, I'll be off the drink.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany was a sad example. It was a world leader in the sciences for more than a century, until its science base was demolished during the Nazi era, and the country ceded its position to the United States.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

I want to keep grabbing, keep reaching, keep crawling, keep grinding and excelling until I can go no higher.