Quotes About Progress

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. —Anatole France

Recognizing that the reasoning individual is far more likely to be carried away by some worthless passing fashion than he is to discover a new and valuable truth, they prefer to uphold ideas and behaviors that have been tested for generations and have stood their ground. And where they introduce alterations, they do so according to the method of constructive reasoning.

You're way behind the times. Doesn't matter how handy it is. People get rid of anything old. That's modern life for ya.

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

A ciência é o poder do ser humano.

We will change in order to create the future!

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, "I will live better tomorrow."

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

Why, when discussing China today, do I always return to the Cultural Revolution? That's because these two eras are so interrelated: even though the state of society now is very different from then, some psychological elements remain strikingly similar. After participating in one mass movement during the Cultural Revolution, for example, we are now engaged in another: economic development.

El tiempo nos impulsa hacia delante o hacia atrás y va alterando nuestro aspecto.

We human beings sometimes steer off in a direction in which we hope to find something a little bit better.

J'éprouvais le besoin de commencer à vivre. Commencer à vivre ma vraie vie ? Même si ce devait être une simple mascarade et pas du tout ma vraie vie, le temps était venu où il me fallait prendre le départ et s'avancer en traînant lourdement mes pas.

Il dolore genuino può maturare soltanto a grado a grado. Somiglia strettamente alla tubercolosi, in quanto il male è già progredito e ha raggiunto lo stadio critico prima che il paziente si sia reso conto dei suoi sintomi.

still, the loss of something is significant, and I think that loss is the necessary source of a new manifestation.

This was the domain established in less than twenty years by the young man of promise. Then he had had almost nothing over which his fingers might close with a sense of possession, but because the lack had stirred no anxious irritation in him, all these things had now come securely into his grasp.

He...told me--that which is incomplete, seek completion. Yet...that which is complete, is no better than which is incomplete. Do you understand? Do you know...what that means?

We became a trickle that grew into a river.

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.