Quotes About Progress

Basic to the New Testament concept of motivation is the task of becoming what you are. In a real sense we are not merely human beings, but also human becomings. The Christian life is not static; it is a life of change.

All living organisms grow. Growth may sometimes take place in large spurts, and at other times may occur more slowly. In all Christians the potential for growth is significant.

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.

snail's pace. Hanna shook her

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

The plan was to create a agrarian buffer between the rapidly enveloping towers of New York and Brooklyn.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

the Enlightenment dream of inevitable human progress, grounded in the claim that we are all born free and equal in dignity and rights, and premised on hope that the arc of history bends toward justice, is now in tatters.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

But not for Jefferson. "I view cities as pestilent to the morals, the health, and the liberation of man

But, by the same token, there are also moments that can act as catalysts for peace.

It's only a mistake if you don't learn from it

When the rosebud is still forming a little green ball, do you berate it for not being in full bloom? Hell, no!

I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.

Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.

A future historian of theatre, impressed by recent pronouncements on the state of drama and stage, might call the past two decades, give or take a few years, the Time of Great Experiments. Or, the Age of Transition, during which theatre, as it has been known in the West since the ancient Greeks, finally changed into something different that still might be named theatre, but then might not.

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

La destinée des nations dépend de la manière dont elles se nourrissent.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

I might not know every step of my journey, but standing still wouldn't accomplish a thing. Sometimes you just had to take a step, whatever the direction, and see what happened.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.