Quotes About Progress

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

Nothing is ever changed at a single stroke, I know that full well, although a person sometimes wishes it could be otherwise.

The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years, about how it changed me to see the space-scarred Columbia capsule in a museum as a child, about how we came in peace for all mankind.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow's flowers grow.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

Now list six tasks that you currently face and create a Scenario Two for yourself:

As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.

and after all, if I really wanted the bay to stay totally untouched, I wouldn't be living here myself, would I?" said her mother's voice out in the kitchen. I'd live in the city, and just enjoy the idea of the bay, pure and untouched between bare hills. But we built this house didn't we? We dug into the slope and levelled the space and poured the concrete foundations.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.

Never doubt that a small group of commited people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Women have an important contribution to make.

If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way - a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good - then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

Don't waste your energies kicking against an open door,

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that

more powerful than all the armies in the world is an idea whose time is come'.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.