Quotes About Progress

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

We must be willing to get rid the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. ~ Joseph Campbell

We must constantly die one way or another to the selfhood already achieved.

We can't have a mythology for a long, long time to come. Things are changing too fast to become mythologized.

Awe, you see, is what moves us forward.

I must go forward where I have never been instead of backwards where I have

How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.

She loved the beauty and the grace of the good old days, but not the rules that kept kids from talking and women from lifting heavy objects if they wanted to. Raleia was beginning to think it would be better to invent a whole new time period where she could pull things from then and now to make the perfect place.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.

Barangkali tugas manusia ialah memunggah batu-batu halangan dan menggunakannya sebagai dasar atau landas sebuah bangunan yang baru.

Great changes are coming. Great things are going to happen. I may not live to see them, but you will.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

America didn't bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

before Detroit was called the Paris of the West it was known as the Arsenal of Liberty.

America is Europe's greatest invention.

The first lift shaft was built four years before the first lift. In 1852 Peter Cooper was constructing the Cooper Union building in New York with an elevator shaft, in the sure and certain knowledge that if he built it, the lift would come. That isn't an act of impatience, it's an act of faith, and it is, archetypally, the act of an American.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again ... and then his ears ... and then his front paws ... and then his shoulders ... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!

And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been." ~Winnie the Pooh