Quotes About Progress

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

You can turn your weaknesses into strengths.

The best thing about the future is that it happens one day at a time.

Nihilism and narcissism are not traits that any leading-edge can actually operate with.

The cure for the disaster of modernity is to address the dissociation, not attempt to erase the differentiation!

evolution meanders more than it progresses. But over the long haul, evolution has a broad telos, a broad direction, which is particularly obvious with increasing differentiation—an atom to an amoeba to an ape!

As Robert Kegan, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, put it, "I know of no better way to summarize development than that the subject of one stage becomes the object of the subject of the next stage.

dialectic of progress at every turn—hardly a sweetness-and-light affair! Holons not only have an inside and outside, they also exist as individuals and as collectives. This means that every holon has four facets, which we called the four quadrants: intentional, behavioral, cultural, and social

To put it all very plainly, evolution can continue. It has already brought forth humans from amoebas— why on earth should we think that after that prodigious feat lasting billions of years, evolution just petered out and wound down? And if the ratio amoeba to human is repeated, the result could only be God. The mystics simply show us the stages of higher evolution leading to that Summit.

As I have said, it may be difficult to define civilization, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

I wish to improve my power, but not in a home run way.

A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.

It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

The reason the word Feminism has power is because the concept has power and the reason it has power is because people are still afraid of it.