Quotes About Progress

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

Make today so awesome that yesterday gets jealous!

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

Ik geloof soms dat de koppigheid waarmee mensen aan tradities vasthouden, voldoende is om iedere hoop op te geven dat de mensheid door rationele maatregelen gelukkiger zal worden.

Ik heb tot dusver ondervonden dat op deze tocht niets voortdurend erger wordt dan het al is. Na klimmen volgt afdalen, regen houdt ook wel weer eens op, moeras wordt opgevolgd door droog terrein en zelfs de stenen waarop ik mijn enkels verzwik, zijn soms over lange afstanden afwezig. Kortom: net als altijd in het leven, een soort specifiek gemiddelde van ellende.

Nadie puede arrancar dos veces desde el mismo punto. Todo experimento que no pueda repetirse no es, en modo alguno, un experimento. Nadie puede experimentar con su vida. Nadie debería reprocharse el vivir a ciegas.

Some start in life without any leading objective at all; some with a low one; and some aim high—and just in proportion to the elevation at which they aim will be their progress and success.

Nearly every person you meet is aiming at a situation in which he will be exempted from the drudgery of laboring with his hands. We cannot all become "lords" and "gentlemen.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today

When anything is going to happen in this country, it happens first in Kansas

As it was, getting out of the car that night Coolidge said to Jager: "It's wonderful to ride in a horseless wagon." Then a pause: "But it won't amount to much!

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it." —George Santayana Every

The drama is not dead but liveth, and contains the germs of better things.

To me, it seems that mankind can never achieve its highest potentialities till it has thrown off the incubus of historic (and prehistoric) religion.

we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...

He who studies with a philosopher should take away with him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a sounder man, or on the way to become sounder.

What ailment of yours have you cured today? What failing have you resisted? Where can you show improvement?"1

in the course of trying to train a horse, we punish him, it should be because we want him to obey us in the future, not because we are angry about his failure to obey us in the past.