Quotes About Progress

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.

Quanti secoli bisognarono a quella nebulosa per crescere da atomo a stella? Ve lo dicano gli astronomi. Quanti secoli ci vollero al sentimento umano per concertarsi in coscienza? Lo dicano gli antropologi.

Gli uomini empiono il tempo, e le grandi opere lo allargano.

UNDERSTANDING the destruction of slavery in the United States not as a single climactic event but as a long process that stretched across a near-century provides a useful and perhaps fuller appreciation of the reality of emancipation. Freedom's arrival was not the work of a moment but the product of movement; it was a process, rather than an occasion.12 Taking the long view of slavery's demise

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.

Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that's the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

History, like thermodynamics, won't let you out.

We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead.

was sometimes good to revisit what you were so that you could compare it to what you had become.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Albert Einstein said that a problem cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

Making the beginning is one third of the work.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

We did not evolve by precautionary living, nor by hanging back for lack or certainty.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.