Quotes About Progress

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

You can't look in the future and can't dwell on the past. It's all about the present and what you do each day.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

Each season was different and presented its own set of circumstances and challenges.

From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

Doors that presented themselves before, which I couldn't walk through, are at least there. And there are a few keyholes I can pick.

I went back to 'The X Factor' for one reason, because I wanted to have that full circle. It's where I started, and I went back as a presenter. And that's what I wanted and I got that.

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

I have always been interested in following the technology that I feel are presenting themselves as true industry and innovation.

My job in MTV was my first real presenting job and I had no real idea what I was doing, but you kind of learn just by doing.

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.