Quotes About Progress

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.