Quotes About Progress

She's all science-y, which is cool, especially for a girl. It should not matter. But it does. Cuz we're not living in the future yet and people really do stereotype.

Individuals who continually play it safe in life, taking the path of least resistance and risk, deny themselves rich opportunities for personal growth. Some

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

The way I see it, the nineteenth century was a British century. The twenthieth century is an American century. I predict that the twenty-first century will be a Chinese century. The pendulum of history will swing from the ying ashes brought by the Cultural Revolution to the yang pheonix arising from its wreckage. Aunt Baba, pg 226. Year 1979

If anything is clear, it is that a rigid, unchanging way is wrong.

one must judge each situation and each action, not according to its "comfortableness" but according to whether or not it is likely to bring one nearer to that goal.

The concept of time in the Jewish way of thinking is not one of linear flow. Time is a process, in which past, present, and future are bound to each other, not only by cause and effect but also as a harmonization of two motions: progress forward and a countermotion backward, encircling and returning.

There can be no greater danger to one laboring to reach a higher spiritual and moral plane than the feeling that he has achieved it. Such feelings of self-satisfaction generally indicate a blurring of the vision of the goal itself.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that for the future human civilization will be able to dispense with this as a condition of its existence? But may it not be that, to-day, more than ever before, the creative brain of the individual is indispensable?

Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses.

Una alianza será tanto más fuerte cuanto mayor sea la expectativa de las partes contrayentes por lograr finalidades tangibles y de carácter expansivo.

One has good grounds to be suspicious of any new idea, any doctrine, any new worldview, or any political or economical movement, that tries to deny everything that the past has produced, or to present it as inferior and worthless... Any renovation that's truly beneficial to human progress will always have to begin its constructive work where the last stones have been laid.

el progreso de todo Movimiento trascendental en el mundo se ha debido, generalmente, más a grandes oradores que a grandes escritores.

T]he individual man, provided he wants to achieve some great end... must always concentrate his efforts on one definitely limited stage of his progress, which has to be completed before the next step is attempted. Those who don't attempt to realize their aims step by step, and who don't concentrate their energy in reaching the individual stages, will never attain the final objective.