Quotes About Progress

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds sprout? When everything turns into compost?

Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness.

Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds sprout? When everything turns into compost?

Continuing pursuit of the ideal of service and not profit. 2. Continuing primary and sincere concern for the care and welfare of each individual patient. 3. Continuing interest by every member of the staff in the professional progress of every other member.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do books'? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with 'Sorry, I don't do Facebook'?

I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.

Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.

Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies? Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

Muchas de sus paradojas lógicas son hoy valoradas en gran manera por la Lógica más avanzada

Any good music must be an innovation.