Quotes About Progress

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

I've discovered that if you want to reach your true potential, it's much more effective to ignite a new passion for life than to dwell on past problems.

Replace "This project is so big and important" with "I can take one small step.

Whenever you begin to feel overwhelmed by the large, grand project that looms before you, remind yourself, "I can take one small step. One small step; one rough, rough draft; one imperfect sketch; one small hello. That's all I need to do now.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search for knowledge is what brought men to the moon; but it took knowledge already acquired to make it possible to get there. How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]

Research is creating new knowledge.

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

wild patience has taken me this far

A decision to stop dating someone is hard to make, but it should be made as early in the process as possible. In other words, if a new relationship is likely to evolve in a negative direction, the earlier you can end it and move on the better. There are three reasons for this: