Quotes About Progress

Pennsylvania is a state of firsts. They had the first hospital in America. The first library and zoo. They had the first newspaper, the first TV and radio broadcasts. Pennsylvania had the first capital of the United States. And most importantly, the banana split was invented here!

Today is today. But there are many tomorrows...

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

Bakat harus dilatih, bukan hanya dilahirkan.

It feels nice to be comfortable, but if we're comfortable all the time, we miss out on the chance to stretch and grow.

Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results.

Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

You will fail many times, but in failing you will learn , and in learning you will find your way.

When running up a hill, it's all right to give up…as long as your feet keep moving.

Life develops what it demands

As we die from one life into the next... we may also die and be reborn in a single lifetime... and the story, the journey, goes on and on...

To see where something leads, it's best to wait until you reach the end.

An overnight success usually takes about ten years. — Anonymous

No task is too formidable when you divide your goals into small, realistic steps and prepare well.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

evolution is not progress, that there is no 'goal' or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution 'succeeds' if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.

We've been stuck in one species since our Cro-Magnon ancestors helped to wipe out the smarter Neanderthals," she said. "Now it's our chance to diversify rapidly, and institutions like the Hegemony, the Pax, and the Core are stopping it.

a person born and raised into a world where information was always at hand, communication with anyone anywhere a given, and no distance more than a farcaster step away, this sudden regression to life as our ancestors had known it would be like suddenly awakening blind and crippled.

For a person born and raised into a world where information was always at hand, communication with anyone anywhere a given, and no distance more than a farcaster step away, this sudden regression to life as our ancestors had known it would be like suddenly awakening blind and crippled.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

Aenea nodded. "It's wonderful to preserve tradition, but a healthy organism evolves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ culturally and physically.