Quotes About Progress

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

I don't know why it is, but the present generation has a marvelous way of skimming around any kind of work with their hands, They'll work their brains till they haven't got any more backbone than a caterpillar, but as for manual labor, it's old-timey and out of fashion.

out shortcomings, suggest solutions, and collaborate

political instrument adapted to the new times

La desigualdad son siglos de aprenderla.

este país el sector que más creció en los últimos veinte años no es la tecnología, no es el software; es la desigualdad, que creció más que en ningún otro momento de nuestra historia.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Today is the first day of the rest of my push-up.

Our life isn't a story that we read. It's a story that we write as we live it, one page at a time.

Today is a part of a long journey and this isn't the last chapter. It's just one of those middle ones that takes some courage to walk through to see what comes next.

Masters become masters because they practice in the little moments. Every pause, every moment to yourself is an opportunity to try again. Every tiny shift matters, and the more you practice, the better you will become. Besides, if not now, when?

The next step after this is applying that state of being—that thin sliver of sliding into place that feels wrong and so right at the same time, that makes you question your sanity—to your green lights. Feel your way through them instead

the past is done and despite how much human beings like to dig it back up, the past cannot predict the future. It can only make it harder to clearly see the next path.

the future is always more important than the past.

Was every good change made in the world the result of successful bullying? I wondered.

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn from experience and have no time to use it in a continuous and sensible way.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.