Quotes About Progress

Though Marx's proletariat may be somewhat better fed than it was a century ago, its individual members have made little if any progress toward that personal liberty and independence on which the dignity of man is founded.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

Civilization begins with distillation

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Here's a wagon that's going a piece of the way. It will take you that far; backrolling now behind her a long monotonous succession of peaceful and undeviating changes from day to dark and dark to day again, through which she advanced in identical and anonymous and deliberate wagons as though through a succession of creakwheeled and limpeared avatars, like something moving forever and without progress across an urn.

who two thousand years hence will still be throwing triumphantly off the yoke of Latin culture and intelligence of which they were never in any great permanent danger to begin with.

I never said anything more. it doesn't do any good. I've found that when a man gets into a rut the best thing you can do is let him stay there.

We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it.

Only yesterday was a wilderness ordinary

You've been running a long time, not to've got any further off than mealtime

People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles. Look at Boon. We dont know why.

Jobb felÅ'l utcai lámpák sora menetelt...

Esto, esto es lo que trataba de decir: que cuando algo es nuevo, difícil y brillante, es mucho mejor que si solo es seguro, pues lo seguro, las cosas seguras son precisamente las que la gente ha estado haciendo tanto tiempo, que sus bordes están ya gastados y no hay nada ya en ellas que permita decir a un hombre: «Esto no se había hecho antes y no puede ser hecho otra vez».

We must redefine the American dream so that it does not rest on the assumption that we can throw old places away and create new ones in the middle of nowhere.

None of us grew but the business.

success and like free enterprise and all

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.