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Quotes About Progress

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.
~ Elon Musk
The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.
~ Ron Dennis
Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.
~ D. J. MacHale
AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.
~ Lester Thurow
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
~ William Gibson
Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future
~ Sri Aurobindo
It's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.
~ Ken Robinson
The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely
~ Jackson Pollock
Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
~ Jacque Fresco
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
~ Ira Gershwin
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.
~ John Thomas Sladek
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
~ Stanley Schmidt
I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll.
~ Kurt Cobain
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
~ Joe Haldeman
Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.
~ Jim Rohn
A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.
~ Andy Stanley
I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.
~ John Cale
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
~ Lord Acton
The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Africa is the future.
~ Youssou N'Dour
The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Rant