Quotes About Progress

pero no existe la democracia perfecta, porque lo que define a una democracia de verdad es su carácter flexible, abierto, maleable –es decir, permanentemente mejorable–, de forma que la única democracia perfecta es la que es perfectible hasta el infinito.

quizá porque en aquel momento tuve por primera vez la intuición falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya acontecido es irreversible

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.

Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

Fine buildings, fine pictures and books and everything that is beautiful are certainly signs of civilization. But an even better sign is a fine man who is unselfish and works with others for the good of all. To work together is better than to work singly, and to work together for the common good is best of all.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

Knowledge is the currency of the twenty-first century.

Regard every "no" as a "not today" and a step closer to "yes.

marketing has a beginning and a middle but not an ending.

All jobs are temporary in the new economy—henceforth you always need to be looking for the next opportunity.

Nowhere does the Bible say that one must wait for change. Jesus did not ask people to wait. He expected and effected change right away. Not everything, of course, but something can be changed as the result of every session, including the first. There is a solution to every unsolved problem; this is the Christian conviction that emerges from I Corinthians 10:13 and II Timothy 3:16, 17.

They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil.

Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.

You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.

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Boy! There are times when I get the feeling that science develops things that are supposed to be good for us, but that just make trouble." Dr. Tresselt's blue eyes seemed to throw out sparks of amusement. "I know how you feel, Joe," he said. "But my stars, boy, nobody can be alive and never have any trouble! Being alive is just meeting troubles every day and overcoming them. Just to stand up straight against the pull of gravity is a fight, isn't it?

They said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

One can't stop change. The best thing one can do is manage it so that one doesn't get crushed by it.

Sounds like the classic definition of insanity, doesn't it? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

There is no such thing as closure as far as I'm concerned." Julius tossed the contents of another egg into the bowl. "Things are what they are. You deal with reality and move on.

We all have pasts and we all have futures. All we can do is choose to live in one or the other. It doesn't seem to me that there's much point living in the past.

There's thinking outside the box and then there's failing to be able to find the box in the first place. You can't appreciate the new model until you understand the old one and why it isn't working anymore.