Quotes About Progress

Learning requires inefficiency.

Alexis de Tocqueville took one good hard look at America's growing colonies and noted: "America is the one country in the world where the most continual care has been taken to trace clearly separated lines of action for the two sexes, and where the wish is for them to walk with equal steps, but always on different paths.

Life was quite often like business. Even when your journey veered off-track, you simply recalculated and adjusted your trajectory

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

Sometimes you simply do the things you do, and it doesn't necessarily help to pick on the old you by proclaiming how smart the new you is. - The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

There is a rule I live by: People begin as they mean to continue.

La décadence d'une société commence quand l'homme se demande: "Que va-t-il arriver?" au lieu de se demander: "Que puis-je faire?

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

But I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I have never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

All I'd done in better than two decades was tread forward until I reached the limit of certain assumptions, and stepped off.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted and encouraged-because last time you came in fifth.

Get out of that comfortable rut.

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

When I first came here copyboys wouldn't have been allowed to eat in the canteen with journalists. A smile twitched at one corner of his mouth. I was a copyboy once, at the Lanarkshire Gazette . Can ye believe that? He left a space for her to respond, so she did. Can I believe that a man as important as you was ever a copyboy or that Lanarkshire has its own gazette?

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.

I've built something valuable here. But valuable things also have a way of being misunderstood in their own time. Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old day back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.

Everyone wants a quick fix. We're tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don't even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.

Plans are just dreams until they're executed.

Civilization seems to be something we choose when it fits our purpose.