Quotes About Progress

Gigantic, willful, young,Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.

It was our capacity to learn from the experiences of others that gave Homo sapiens an enormous local advantage, with new strategies and innovations built on a platform of prior discoveries. As a consequence, each generation had no need to reinvent the wheel, and a child could acquire an understanding of the world that a few generations back would have been available only to geniuses.

the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity.

The bigger story was competition causing more productive business enterprises to replace less productive ones...However, it provides even more reason to worry about all the people living in economies where protection and distortion of competition allow unproductive enterprises to persist and cause these people to fall further behind, but even more importantly, to remain in poverty.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

When I overdo things and take chances, I learn faster.

mastery comes to you over time when you're focused. Don't get ahead of yourself.

the golden pathway to learning, not just in music but in anything in life, is through one's own, individual, honest mistakes.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

every failure is a step to success!

When we see around us the tragedy of not taking this truth seriously and when we experience within ourselves the veracity of the truth, we will be positioned to move forward in our spiritual progress. We also will have a different attitude toward those who more obviously struggle in areas where we might only secretly have a problem. Day by day, an awareness of our condition will help us grow spiritually.

Have I not reason to lamentWhat man has made of man?

A power is passing from the earth.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

the hope Of active days urged on by flying hours,—

The evidence points, first of all, to the importance of developing visions of the future.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

Jetzt sind wir in einer Situation, in der wieder zusammenwächst, was zusammengehört." ("Now we are in a situation where what belongs together, will grow back together.") Berlin radio interview, November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]

I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.

It was astonishing, the visitors said, the way all the white men worked together and set up the road so quickly, each man like a limb of a hundred-legged bug, each doing just what was needed at the right moment. A small thing for each man, but when it was done right, the bug scooted fast. Crazy

by nature men are alike. Through practice they have become far apart,"3