Quotes About Progress

When you dig a well, there is no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way.

Cuando dejas de crecer, envejeces.» Los nuevos conocimientos, las habilidades nuevas, las nuevas maneras de mirar el mundo mantienen en crecimiento a la mente y al cuerpo; mientras así sea, se expresa la tendencia natural de ser nuevo a cada segundo.

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On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

Everyone has already received God's greatest gift - the potential to grow.

I'm a process" sounds strange to most people, but let's examine the science that supports this answer.

Every single problem that you have in your life is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit.

Baby, that damn pendulum has already swung.

The implementation of liberty/freedom, as Robert Hayden, the U.S. poet laureate in the 1970s, put it, has been the "way we journeyed from Can't to Can.

Humanomics doesn't give up on science. On the contrary, it yields the best scientific explanation of how we got rich, 1800 to the present, and how the whole world soon will, and it gives us, too, a reason to be good.

The economy, like science or art, is more like an organism growing uncertainly toward the light than a steel machine repeating exactly today and tomorrow what it did yesterday.

the much-maligned "capitalism" has raised the real income per person of the poorest since 1800 not by 10 percent or 100 percent, but by over 3,000 percent.

The way to help the poor, in short, is to let the Great Enrichment proceed by commercially tested betterment, as it has widely since 1800 and especially in the past forty years.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession of 2007–2009, unpleasant though it was. Now it's over. The big story is that the Chinese in 1978 and then the Indians in 1991 began to adopt liberal ideas in their economies, and came to welcome creative destruction.

But it didn't have the Great Enrichment because it didn't have the ideas flowing from a free people. Ideas, not savings, did it. Liberalism, not empire.

The left in its worrying routinely forgets this most important secular event since the invention of agriculture—the Great Enrichment of the last two centuries—and goes on worrying and worrying, like the little dog worrying about his bone in the Travelers Insurance advertisement on TV, in a new version every half generation or so.

happiness is not a six-pack and a sport utility vehicle but what he calls "flow." It occurs "when a person's skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable" (Csikszentmihalyi 1997, 30).

What will matter in fifty years in economic history is poverty and its ending, and in political history what will matter is tyranny and its ending. If poverty and tyranny are ended, the rest follows.

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

New vandals will destroy what former vandals failed to abolish.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

To jump over centuries in one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, you'll be way too late.