Quotes About Progress

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

One priceless bit of advice my great-grandfather fave my grandfather, and my grandfather gave me: "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Different times need different types of leadership.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can learn. For those who can't, there's only yesterday.

There is no guarantee that starting a small conversation will lead to something larger. But the failure to take any step at all, no matter how small, comes with an ironclad guarantee that we will not be part of helping change happen.

we can't re-write the beginning, but we can write what happens now for whats written for the future

We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

Taking over from Arabs and Africans, it instituted the transatlantic slave trade, but it also engendered abolitionism and put an end to slavery before other nations did.

L'avenir est notre affaire

Caminar no consuela. Caminar hace pensar. Cada paso argumenta.

Homogénéité culturelle, historique, tel est le destin de l'homme.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

change is a group project

Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don't know where we are, but we're making damned good time.

TV and more TV. It looks like something out of an old movie," Sam said. "Forty, fifty years ago, they were always dragging out the TV screens when they wanted to show what the glorious future would look like. As if the future was just going to be more TV." "And, as it turned out, it is," Rosa said.

Everything changed for the machines.

Every technology has its original sin.

letting go is about courage. Courage is a really cool word, because it has two parts. There's the letting go part?letting go of the fear, the limiting beliefs. Courage to make the decision to break free from the things that are holding you back. But courage is not just about letting go. It's also about climbing higher, and reaching for something new.

There are as many good things about civilization as bad. Perhaps more. And we would miss them. From toothbrushes to electric lights. From clean water to democracy. From bookstores to the kind of gentle, tolerant argumentation that never resorts to violence and allows for the slow changing of opinions,…and the gradual and diverse evolving of everybody's minds. The core of what we now know that it means

All those square-jawed heroes of the old science fiction stories had it wrong. You can't save the world as we know it. I did what I could, and I did some good in the world. But you can't save the world without changing it.

What is believed in one man's time, is despised in another man's day. To be sure, there will even be revulsion in some future years at things you hardly notice, that are happening in what is known to you as the present.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.