Quotes About Progress

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance,And men must walk, at least, before they dance.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th'eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way; Th'increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

To shoot is human, to make your own bullets is divine. Let's be honest, we were all beginners at one point or another.

But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Een mens moet zich nooit schamen te bekennen dat hij ongelijk had, daarmee zegt hij slechts in andere woorden dat hij vandaag wijzer is dan hij gisteren was.

While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!

Be not the first by whom the new are tired, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.

The goal is not to destroy technology in some neo-Luddite delusion but to push technology into a hypertrophic state, further than it is meant to go. (...) We must scale up, not unplug. Then, during the passage of technology into this injured, engorged, and unguarded condition, it will be sculpted anew into something better, something in closer agreement with the real wants and desires of its users.

There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

I saw with regret, (and all scientific men have shared this feeling) that whilst the number of accurate instruments was daily increasing, we were still ignorant

With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

I've been having chuck steak ever since I've been on the force, and now I'm going to have a bit of tenderloin.

This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we all make to get on with it.