Quotes About Progress

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

there is no question that there is an enormous range of technologies that are on the shelf. The problem is the gap between technological development, and diffusion and adoption. It is sobering to be reminded that the first hybrid was invented in 1901.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress. If the children are our future, then critical thinking must be their guide.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past." —Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher

Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes, the error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

A gente sofre, acha que a vida acabou, e depois vê que não é nada disso e segue em frente. (Referindo-se aos período dos 19-25 anos)

Revelation comes most often when we are on the move.

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?

Equal marriage makes a huge impact, because people see gay people being allowed to be happy," he says. "And these events involve families – and not just families but caterers and florists and hotels. And all these people are forced to accept that here are two people who are in love and want to build a family together . . . But I'm not complacent. Progress can falter, and rights can be taken away, and people can be repressed again very easily.

Good things are always coming; sometimes we just forget it.

Life without momentum is not truly life. A person needs movement, or they eventually begin to forget that they even exist.

The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

history has no overall direction or purpose

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

His footsteps sound hesitant, but he doesn't turn back. Nor will the moment return, which is true of all moments, though not equally.

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Children still, on the verge of not being children any more.

Sturgeon's definition of science fiction—"[a story] which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

Science Fiction is what I point to and say "That's science fiction.