Quotes About Progress

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." Gail Sheehy

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Culture is something that must grow. You cannot build a tree; you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature . . .

The big question about the hunter-gatherers, therefore, does not seem to be 'How did they progress towards the higher level of an agricultural and politicised society?' but 'What persuaded them to abandon the secure, well-provided and psychologically liberating advantages of their primordial lifestyle?'.1

WczeÅ›niej czy pó?niej dekonstrukcjonistów zdekonstruujÄ… ich wÅ'asne metody. "Prze?yliÅ›my Ã…Å¡mier? Boga i Ã…Å¡mier? CzÅ'owieka. Z pewnoÅ›ciÄ… prze?yjemy tak?e Ã…Å¡mier? Historii... i Ã…Å¡mier? Postmodernizmu.

We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" . . . and the death of post-modernism.

If enough people in society could be convinced that history was governed by scientific laws: that Soviet-style Socialism was the inevitable product of historical progress: and that the Soviet Union embodied all the finest socialist ideals of peace, equality, and justice, then rational people would be incapable of defying the rule of the Soviet government and its chosen allies.

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

8. Errors are essential, and there is no right way to move, only better ways. Feldenkrais didn't correct errors or "fix" people.

Nature has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

Moskowitz became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain only after making some discoveries while treating himself. A

Dr. Bastiaan Bloem,

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? 

There is an art to losing, and like all art, it can be developed.

When we train our mind to embrace what's hard instead of trying to get rid of it, we have begun to walk a path of growth, happiness, and true resilience. Our

If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet, and beyond the planet

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.