Quotes About Progress

Fields can lie fallow, but we can't; we have less time.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

You'll know when you get there. For now, just keep typing.

Tomorrow will be a new day.

You're leaping over the hedge before you come to the stile.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Miremos más que somos padres de nuestro porvenir que no hijos de nuestro pasado

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Los hombres se hacen, las montañas están hechas ya

Todas as éticas são evolutivas: o que hoje é normal, amanhã será horrendo e o que hoje é crime, amanhã será banal.

Não há regresso. Há viagens sem regresso nem repetição.

It's exhilarating to come closer and closer to self-discipline.

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Second, to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong from it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going?

As J. S. Mill wrote, "No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

This cultural hubris, or overweening presumption about what we are entitled to from a universe that is basically insensitive to human needs, generally leads to trouble. The unwarranted sense of security sooner or later results in a rude awakening. When people start believing that progress is inevitable and life easy, they may quickly lose courage and determination in the face of the first signs of adversity.

Goals justify the effort they demand at the outset, but later it is the effort that justifies the goal.

By stretching skills, by reaching toward higher challenges, such a person becomes an increasingly extraordinary individual.

It's exhilarating to come closer and closer to self-discipline. You make your body go and everything hurts; then you look back in awe at the self, at what you've done, it just blows your mind. It leads to ecstasy, to self-fulfillment. If you win these battles enough, that battle against yourself, at least for a moment, it becomes easier to win the battles in the world