Quotes About Progress

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

The time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

But to look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.

In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura , or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus , intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.

Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

There is no failure—just a big field to wander in.

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Put bluntly, it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively. And sometimes maybe "responding to it constructively" means you ignore it altogether.

it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively.

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As real spiritual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth.

There were new words for everything in their dead language put back to use. New words for the jets and their radar systems. New words for the tanks and the radios inside. But for this, for the hammer and beat of the forge, the Bible still sufficed.

Americans have dissipated their racial energy in an orgy of stone-breaking. In their few years they have broken more stones than did centuries of Egyptians, and they have done their work hysterically, desperately, almost as if they knew that the stones would some day break them.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.