Quotes About Progress

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

The quality of a person's leadership will be in part measured by time: its use and its passage.

The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually will be reading constantly.

Don't ever let the negative experiences from your past deny you from the positive experiences of your future.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Effort is the cornerstone of success; it brings expectations to life.

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

Some of us need to be as sympathetic and understanding of our own failures of the past as we seek now to be understanding of others. We need to remember that we were a work in progress then—as we are still, I hope—and that we had our unique problems and shortcomings that made it difficult for us to be as fine as we wish now we had been. It isn't fair to impose a sixty-year-old's judgment on a twelve-year-old's frame. The

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use these languages, or we remain mute.

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Material betterment has gone hand in hand with spiritual decline.

I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.

This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being.

Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.