Quotes About Progress

When you fight back and win, even in small battles, it makes a difference in who you become. You're better for it. That's what persistence is about. It's a ferocious optimism.

We need to live our values, to be the kind of nation that invests in opportunity, not just for some of us, but for all of us.

Plans are the essential means by which we chart a course for our collective future.

In order for therapy to be effective, a patient must be prodded and provoked, forced into confrontations, given sufficient incentive to push herself out of the caged fog of depression.

All I would like in my life, what I wish for so very much is to someday… become one of those people who is better than the worst thing that happens to her.

But, I think the path to total world dominatiin by women will be much easier, if we're all extremely well educated.

It has come quickly, this crushing, industrial love of paradise. The pervert-free, less-trammeled, hundred-mile-view days were little more than two decades past, not so very long ago. Yet already my own history sounds like another country.

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

The goal: unrealistic, out of reach. Guidance offered to help in accomplishing the goal: none. The reward: irrelevant, and nowhere near equal in value to the effort required. Here's a scenario more constructive times six: Teacher and student (1) meet one-on-one and (2) discuss and agree to (3) a specific, (4) short-range goal (5) that is achievable and (6) has a meaningful motivator as a reward.

We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

I've managed to stay in a perpetual state of learning only by maintaining what I think of as a posture of ignorant humility.

What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more.

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a "mummified" form.

My contention is that while progress in some of the great matters of human concern has been long proceeding in accordance with the law of a rapidly increasing geometric progression, progress in the other matters of no less importance has advanced only at the rate of an arithmetical progression or at best at the rate of some geometric progression of relatively slow growth. To see it and to understand it we have to pay the small price of a little observation and a little meditation.

At present I am chiefly concerned to drive home the fact that it is the great disparity between the rapid progress of the natural and technological sciences on the one hand and the slow progress of the metaphysical, so-called social "sciences" on the other hand, that sooner or later so disturbs the equilibrium of human affairs as to result periodically in those social cataclysms which we call insurrections, revolutions and wars.

Early ideas are not necessarily true ideas.

All hands agreed, and the wire was sent. The reply was a one-word telegram: "Proceed.

By two-thirty, the Caird was a little more than 3 miles off the coast

Then, at just about two o'clock, they saw where they were.

And they realized at once that it lay directly in their path.

It brought the total run since the beginning of the gale to 84 miles—in six days.