Quotes About Progress

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

As I found, if you complete your work more efficiently, your reward is more billable work, not more leisure time. However, once you're comfortable with the facts of a case, you simply lack the incentive to resolve the case, since you'll just have to start the arduous task of learning a new case.

El acercamiento es un principio; mantenerse unidos, un progreso; trabajar juntos, el verdadero éxito. HENRY FORD

In their confluence, these complex therapeutic skills may over time become a simpler way of being.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

Incised in the stone over the Herbert C. Hoover Building's north entrance is the legend that, with Lincoln's characteristic brevity, sums up the single most powerful idea in the world: THE PATENT SYSTEM ADDED THE FUEL OF INTEREST TO THE FIRE OF GENIUS

The average person in William Shakespeare's time lived no better than his counterpart in Homer's time.

Boulton's strategic plan was on schedule. He had discerned an opportunity; had exploited it;* and was soon enough unsatisfied by it. By the end of 1782, he had identified the next conquest for the steam engine, an arena whose potential dwarfed that of the mining industry: wheels.

Until the first antibiotics, medicine remained the oldest art. It had yet to become, in Thomas's words, the "youngest science.

A few thousand Europeans, no matter how inventive their work in chemicals, or metallurgy, could not create an Industrial Revolution unless they could inspire (or borrow, or even steal) from one another;

The Encyclopédie itself promised "to offer craftsmen the chance to learn35 from philosophers, and thereby hopefully to advance further toward perfection.

Many more learned their science in the most practical way: as apprentices to artisans who were more likely to be literate than ever before in history.

There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: You can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow, or you can climb the tree.

A basic rule of history is that the inevitable eventually happens.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.