Quotes About Progress

there's no going back; time and water move on relentlessly.

in my day, molay, a girl couldn't dream like that. But you, my namesake, you can be a doctor, or lawyer, or journalist—anything you imagine. We lit that lamp to light your path.

I am so behind that yesterday catches up with tomorrow.

first, like a hornet's nest, it's no more than a fleck of mud in a wooden joist. But it grows, and portholes appear, and soon a steady drone can be heard within.

Literacy alters patterns of life that have gone undisturbed for generations.

We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Sometimes, there seems to be a halfway point between where you've been and everywhere else, and we were there.

TRACE THE EMOTIONAL BEATS ON YOUR ARC The arc maps the inner changes you undergo as you progress toward your goal.

I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

The pain you are feeling is merely the strike of every hammer blow on the anvil as you are being forged.

Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.

While the Cold War made instant annihilation a credible threat in the 1950s, by the mid-1960s some were beginning to realize that even the everyday activities of our project of civilization were not, in total, going unnoticed by the planet.

you have taken part in the only really majestic choice we get to make in life, which is to continue it.

Before women gained the right to vote in America, many "had never before considered their degraded status as anything but natural," historian Jean Baker observes. As the suffrage movement gained momentum, "a growing number of women were beginning to see that custom, religious precept, and law were in fact man-made and therefore reversible.

Psychologists discovered that there are two routes to achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd down conventional paths and maintaining the status quo. Originality is taking the road less traveled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better.

After all, the purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Instead, creators ought to build a car and see if customers will drive it.

Minority viewpoints are important, not because they tend to prevail but because they stimulate divergent attention and thought, " finds Berkeley psychologist Charlan Nemeth, one of the world's leading experts on group decisions. "As a result, even when they are wrong they contribute to the detection of novel solutions and decisions that, on balance, are qualitatively better". Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong.

A medida que adquirimos conocimientos sobre un campo, nos convertimos en prisioneros de nuestros prototipos.

The purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs

It takes confident humility to admit that we're a work in progress. It shows that we care more about improving ourselves than proving ourselves.

Don't criticize yourself while you're creating.

To become an original, we have to be willing to take some risks. When we go against the grain to upend time-honored traditions, we can never be certain that we will succeed. As journalist Robert Quillen wrote, "Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second and keep one foot on first base.