Quotes About Progress

Rivers knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the proces of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

The process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

how often the early stages of change of cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar...the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success -- Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides)

As a town, we had made the error of staying small—and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

There's an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

Leaders who ignore change risk extinction.

Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

What? It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.

that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.

I think the best way to teach well is to be always learning something. Don't you agree?

Most people, and certainly all members of Western civilization, are [...] born into a world which differs radically from that of their ancestors, with the result that most of human history is a closed book to them.

What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.

Hay algo más aburrido que la historia del pasado? -dijo Therese sonriendo. -Quizá un futuro sin historia.

Then he said, "That's a long way from stage designing, isn't it." She nodded. "Quite a long way." She started to ask him if he intended to do any work pertaining to the atom bomb, but she didn't, because what would it matter if he did or didn't?

Every failure teaches something. 12

My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be.

It was much more than bricks and stone - It was an idea.