Quotes About Progress

Lo que me preocupa es que el futuro ya haya llegado.

Daugeliui žmoni? mokykla yra pabaiga, o ne pradžia.

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow

D'you know, Georgie, he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.

One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.

If there was such a life and he could accept it without the terrible labyrinth from which he could find no escape. But it was more than that. In a manmade labyrinth one kept moving, running, careening off walls, the contact itself a form of progress, if only blind. His personal labyrinth had no walls, no defined corridors through which to race.

To travel is better than to arrive.

It is amazing how the world can change, he thought, during the life span of a fruitcake.

He was a modernizer, in other words, who never forgot the importance of the individual people behind the machines. His

I was seething. I told him that "the clock is ticking" and that our patience with their lack of political progress was running out. I angrily told him that every day that we bought them for reconciliation was being paid for with American blood and that we had to see some real progress soon.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes much sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something.

My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all.

He'd no longer be a grade-motivated person. He'd be a knowledge-motivated person.

Science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.

Motivation of this sort, once it catches hold, is a ferocious force, and in the gradeless, degreeless institution where our student would find himself, he wouldn't stop with rote engineering information.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20–20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination—"unstuckness," in other words—are completely outside its domain.

the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

it, is best served not by mules but by free men. The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn into a free man.

An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results.

It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.

What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man...