Quotes About Progress

I am starting all over again, I said to myself once more, but am running out of time.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge

To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -- the balance wheel of the social machinery.

No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. Contrary to their popular characterization as intellectual conservatives, engineers are really among the avant-garde.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last. —Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life

You'll end up right where you're supposed to be. Don't be surprised when you get there. Everything you did was a step in that direction. There is no such thing as bad luck.

I like listening to old music and collecting the odd artifact from those times but I can't just stay in one time period for too long. For me, that's leaning too far back into a couch and recounting war stories to your vet friends because they know what you know. That's basically saying that it's all over and now you're just going to recline ever further into the decaying echo of the past. No way, Fanatic. That's surrender and I can't do it.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

An impossibility does not disturb us until its accomplishment shows what fools we were.

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.