Quotes About Progress

It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

An essential prerequisite for the reforms to which I gave the name of perestroika was glasnost or transparency, which gave people the possibility but also the right to speak the truth. How could reforms be put in train if one did not tell the truth about the actual situation, if people could not hear the truth about the past?

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win.

When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course. Where today it flows in shallows like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, tomorrow it will flow richly and fully.

Llevar anteojos era considerado pretencioso, era señal de ahorro, de trabajo serio, de una concepción moderna del mundo.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

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I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

First you imitate, then you innovate.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.

La vita umana è una strana cosa: la meta non si trova alla fine, bensì a metà strada; corri, ma forse hai oltrepassato da tempo il segno d'arrivo senza sapere, senza accorgerti che l'hai fatto né quando, e forse non lo saprai mai. Perciò continui a correre.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

He moves fastest who moves alone.