Quotes About Progress

Ten years ago, when I was on an airplane and I introduced myself to my seatmate, and told them [I was a psychologist], they'd move away from me. … And now when I tell people what I do, they move toward me.

So, as you may be sensing, I wasn't quite cooked.

A paradigm shift can be a sign of progress and evolution, a testament to our capacity for innovation and adaptation.

As you are thinking about the past, the past you are thinking about the future.

Optimism about the survival of our species may be a summary of all the things we have refined, but we hardly see any difference between the things that can actually move humanity forward and those that give the impression that we as a species are evolving.

The ongoing paradigm shift reminds us that what we think we know is always subject to revision, and that true progress requires a willingness to challenge and evolve our beliefs.

We have seen time gradually dispel every unfavorable foreboding and our Constitution surmount every adverse circumstance dreaded at the outset as beyond control.

In the early 1990s, for example, 300 million people lived in countries where men's life expectancy was higher than that of women. Today, the number is practically zero.

From 1939 to 1944 the proportion of students who were female went up seven-fold, reaching 49.3 percent of the total student body.

It's what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.

move on but, as Aunt Dolly had pointed out to him on many occasions

capacity of a gnat. She could see that it was better

It was there to be used because time past could never be regained. And time did pass, excruciatingly slowly at times but it did pass, and you could let it pass you by or use it to your own benefit.

Everything changes. Everything has to change. Sure, that's what life is all about, isn't it? Making things happen, making things change.

Life is what you make it,

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

Even back in the command-and-control days of the production line, Henry Ford's decision to manufacture automobiles was driven by intuition rather than market research. "If we had asked the public what they wanted," he explained, "they would have said 'faster horses.

Miles Davis once said: "Do not fear mistakes—there are none.

When you shift your focus from getting grades to gaining understanding, you set yourself on the road to mastery. You begin learning how to learn.

Contant afdition without subtraction always make a mess.

We are not Human Beings, we are humnan becomings

Moore's Law, the 1965 prediction that the amount of computing power you can buy for a dollar will double every 18 months. Gordon Moore's formula has surprised everyone with its consistency.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.