Quotes About Progress

Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product. 4 Henry Ford

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founders' than any other agency in the world.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

Erinnerungen sind der Reiseproviant auf dem Weg in die Zukunft.

Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a mason puts one block at a time. To build solid and good. So with thought. Think. Build one thought at a time. Think solid. Then act. Is it?

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Sebagai republik yang merdeka, Indonesia berusia lima puluh tahun, tetapi kedengaran lebih mirip sebuah kekaisaran tak terkendali daripada sebuah negara bangsa modern.

If no one ever tried anything, even what some folks say is impossible, no one would ever learn anything. So you just keep on trying and maybe some day you'll try something that will work.

Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.

Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lot / and raised up a paradise

You probably learned from your failures more than from success.

you can solve any large or complex problem by breaking it down into smaller, simpler problems.

My advice to myself is simple. Run with MS, not away from it. That race from existing illness cannot be won. See the truth. We move forward with grace when the wind is at our backs.

Those of us who battle chronic illness are in it for the long haul. I need to come to grips with who I am and what is important before I can function at my best with others. That has yet to happen, for I am a work in progress with no end in sight. Coping is forever an aspiration. I need to stop getting hung up on conventional issues of control and inabilities that just do not matter.

Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets?

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

A creature designed to look before and after finds that to do the latter has gone out of fashion and that to do the former is becoming impossible.

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

How long did it take for a past to die?

Jesus quickly decided, as these men all decide, that the power must be used for the benefit of the race.

Western Civil War of Incorporation