Quotes About Progress

Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.

But that is the way of the world, is it not? Every day a child steps away from the parent by the littlest distance, perhaps just the width of a mouse-whisker, but every day it happens and the days go by, one after another after another

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.  The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. Daniel Gilbert

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

When we appear to be "more a loser than a victor" on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

We move in spasms.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

The reward for good work is more work!

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

One must go somewhere, I suppose, it is abominable to keep still in nothingness

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.

El hecho es que el ordenador está aquí para quedarse y los niños saben utilizarlo y nosotros no. Incluso el lenguaje.

There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old," Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. "The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations—unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Every exit is an entry somewhere.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

A man…progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.*1

As you plunge into learning some art or skill, the world around you appears new and bursting with infinite horizons. Each day brims with new discoveries as you take your tentative first steps, slowly pushing the bounds of exploration. You make mistakes, but even these are empowering, because they are mistakes you have never made before.

steep learning curve means you're climbing faster. And the steepest learning curves come right away.