Quotes About Progress

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.

How things ultimately turn out isn't up to us. It never was. But if do our bit and play our part, it's remarkable how far we can go.

Our moral and cultural traditions have not kept pace with our economic possibilities. We try to match new demands with a spiritual life not designed for them.

In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.

The outcome is a result of the integrity of the process.

No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed.

Eighty miles an hour, velocity becomes the measure of our progress, the speed of forgetting.

In essence, they predict that science, not religion, will guarantee us an afterlife.

as the American mind moves from the imprisoning whimsy of cities through some harder-boiled practicality to the eagle flight of the West.

Chicago rising out of the Midwest like huge metallic cornstalks...

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

The real test of progress is how we love God and our neighbor. Everything else is fluff, and potentially dangerous fluff, at that. It gets in the eyes, so that we no longer see clearly as God sees

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on.

He would crawl until his body could support a crutch. If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The next morning he would crawl forward again. If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The

this one beach holds the story of a world always changing, always on the move.

The great unexplored frontier is evaluation under conditions of complexity. Developmental evaluation explores that frontier.

It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.

The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.