Quotes About Progress

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

There is no breakthrough without breakage"--Love's Body

You know, the nigger was wild till the white man made what he has out of the nigger. He done educate them real smart.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Now everything was going to be impossible, but better.

We shall give up the things of childhood -- gods and demons, planets and suns, guilts and regrets.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

La pauvreté extrême en Chine est évaluée à moins de 1%. Plus de Chinois sont propriétaires de leur logement que tout autre peuple.

Not a perfect soul, I am perfecting. Not a human being, I am a human becoming.

People don't get into planes because they want to fly, they get into planes because they want to get somewhere else faster. What's produced the aeroplane is not so much a desire to fly as a rebellion against the tyranny of time and space.

The Canada to which we really do owe loyalty is the Canada that we have failed to create.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

What if the last seventy-five years has been the exception rather than the rule? What if the last three-quarters of a century has lulled us into believing that the next few decades will continue on the same path? What if we have forgotten the lessons of history from a century ago? In the first four decades of the twentieth century, we faced World War I, then the deadly Spanish flu of 1918–19, then deglobalization and bouts of hyperinflation, and then the Great Depression.

The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.