Quotes About Progress

Change is a choice. It's long and it's slow.

Of course one wants to feel better. But are we willing to have new experiences? Are we willing to work for it? Do we want it bad enough?

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

The women say that it may be that the feminaries have fulfilled their function. They say they have no means of knowing. They say that thoroughly indoctrinated as they are with ancient texts no longer to hand, these seem to them outdated. All they can do to avoid being encumbered with useless knowledge is to heap them up in the squares and set fire to them. That would be an excuse for celebrations.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. —RARLPH WALDO EMERSON

The elimination of laborious asks should not, however, lead us to conclude that man's journey with the horse is over. It is just beginning. We are now free to exist with horses without the pressures experienced in former times.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

The Bots are taking over

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

In those olden times you didn't have to be a space scientist to manage the gadget that flicked your TV on and off, that ridiculous thingamabob that now comes with twenty push buttons, God knows what for. Doctors made house calls. Rabbis were guys. Kids were raised by their moms instead of in child-care pens like piglets. Software meant haberdashery.

Yes, carbon paper, if any of you out there are old enough to remember what that was. Why, in those days we not only used carbon paper but when you phoned somebody you actually got an answer from a human being on the other end..

Start badly, start scrappy, but just start. You may lose, you may win, but you will never know if you do not begin.

Black history is American history.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

The achievements and discoveries of a great but dying society can bring light to a young and growing one.

It's not about the destination. It's getting there that's the good part. - Leonard

Iron is full of impurities that weaken it; through forging, it becomes steel and is transformed into a razor-sharp sword. Human beings develop in the same fashion

Progress comes To those who Train and train

Eight forces sustain creation: Movement and stillness, Solidification and fluidity, Extension and contraction, Unification and division. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Budo means constant progress, and lifelong training

The era of organized religion controlling every aspect of life is over. No single religion has all the answers. Construction of shrine and temple buildings is not enough

Never fear another challenger, no matter how large; Never despise another challenger, no matter how small. Large does not always defeat little. Little can become large by constant building; large can become little by falling apart.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.