Quotes About Progress

Getting stuck in the past is like guarding a cemetery.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.

Progress is not motivated by money. Progress comes from those who are happy to embark on a course of action without quite knowing where it will lead, without doing a feasibility study, without fear of failure or too much hope of reward.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

The third natural law: Growth is the process of changing principles on your Belief Window.

Gaps in our lives drain the power needed to make a positive difference in the world.

Results take time to measure.

Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.

Success is a collection of problems solved.

came upon me so gradually, so very pleasantly, that I considered myself especially blessed. You see, I was put in charge of brewing

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.

Producing the prefect concrete has become a kind of philosopher's stone of the late 20th century.

My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is through acknowledging them that I learn how to grow.

My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is from those that I learn how to grow.' Iain Cameron Williams