Quotes About Progress

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don't have the luxury of old-world pillars. We don't have a common heritage, we don't have a millennia of history. All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have...is what we want to be.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.

Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader. Concepts

History is not an escalator.

To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and to obtain at least a part of it.

We wanted a labor force, but humans came.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

If you criticize what you're doing too early you'll never write the first line." [ Paris Review , interview with Jodi Daynard, The Art of Fiction No. 113, Winter II 1989]

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

The commandment of the Second Technique is: Go where events flow fastest. Surround yourself with a churning mass of people and things happening.

Never take long-range plans seriously. Use them for general guidance as long as they seem to be taking you where you want to go, but whatever you do, don't get stuck with them. Throw them in the trash heap as soon as something better comes along.

German test pilot Ernst Canter noted in his logbook that while in 1910 he flew at a height of eighty feet, two years later he was ascending to almost 5,000.

The Götterdämmerung of the bourgeois world is approaching.

gratitude makes for soul-growth.

Adaptability is the quality which makes for progress,

The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.