Quotes About Progress

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To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

Your transformation will be the miracle.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

The tide will come in and there won't be any more footprints. It's like our lives, right? Whatever we do before this moment in time, we can't do over. We have no choice in life but to keep moving ahead.

Victory shifts from man to man.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Ideas consume the ages as passions consume men. When man is cured, humanity may possibly cure itself.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself.

Le char de la civilisation, semblable à celui de l'idole de Jaggernaut, à peine retardé par un cœur moins facile à broyer que les autres et qui enraye sa roue, l'a brisé bientôt et continue sa marche glorieuse.

Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.

You have not much luxury here," said the judge, gravely, looking round the room. "Well, my son, if we wish to be something great, we must begin by being nothing.

We want our Utopia now.

Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working.

The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as frequently as the right ones.