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Quotes About Progress

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
~ Van Morrison
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs.
~ Vance Havner
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
~ Vance Havner
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.
~ Vance Havner
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
~ Vance Havner
Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
~ Vance Havner
We must be careful not to be so scared of getting out on a limb that we never get up the tree.
~ Vance Havner
You know you have a problem when you do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
~ Unknown
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
~ Vanessa Kerry
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning . . . and the
~ Unknown
The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
~ Vanessa Paradis
You keep learning all the time.
~ Vanessa Paradis
Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.
~ Vanna Bonta
Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.
~ Vanna Bonta
Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
~ Vanna Bonta
To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.
~ Vanna Bonta
We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.
~ Vanna Bonta
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
~ Vannevar Bush
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
~ Vannevar Bush
There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
~ Vannevar Bush
Science, by itself, provides no panacea for individual, social, and economic ills. It can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
~ Vannevar Bush
Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
~ Vannevar Bush
Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.
~ Vannevar Bush
As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.
~ Vannevar Bush