Quotes About Progress

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

sometimes you find your path gets blocked, and you have to take a step back – back home, even – to move forward.

For the ultrarealist, goals exist not to be achieved but to stimulate striving and to drive progress toward the fulfillment of potential. This is why champions set goals that are hard to achieve, and why they welcome opportunities to raise their game.

Becoming a more skillful and efficient runner is more like growing a beard than it is like chopping wood.

discovered that world-class athletes in the full suite of endurance sports share a common training approach. Specifically, they spend about 80 percent of their total training time at low intensity and the other 20 percent at moderate to high intensity.

You don't become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many day, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson

Don't aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.

History was, is, a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards, but you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward.

There is no rejection, there is only redirection.

Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

There will be other days. And other feelings.

To know which path to take, it helps to take a few wrong ones.

As civilisation advances, so does indifference.

On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.

The main advantage of books over life is that they can be redrafted and redrafted, whereas life, alas, is always a first draft.

Sometimes, to be yourself you will have to forget yourself and become something else. Your character is not a fixed thing. You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it.

Other animals don't have progress, they say. But the human mind itself doesn't progress. We stay the same glorified chimpanzees, just with ever bigger weapons. We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mass of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another.

Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard. Or pre-chopped garlic. Or the theory of relativity.

In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths.

Technology won't save humankind. Humans will.