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Quotes About Progress

The future belongs to crowds.
~ Don DeLillo
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
~ Don DeLillo
24 Entre tanto la palabra de Dios hacía grandes progresos, y se propagaba más y más cada día. 25 Bernabé y Saulo, acabada su comisión de entregar las limosnas, volvieron de Jerusalén a Antioquía habiéndose llevado consigo a Juan, por sobrenombre Marcos. 13
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
~ Don Herold
I mean, nothing's really changed, but we've changed.
~ Don Lee
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.
~ Don Marquis
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
~ Don Marquis
The marvels of today's modern technology include the development of the soda can, which when discarded will last forever ... and a $7,000 car which when properly cared for will rust out in two or three years." --Guido Sarducci
~ Don Novello
You must change your actions to change your results.
~ Don R. Campbell
You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
~ Don Shula
Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.
~ Don Winslow
Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.
~ Don Winslow
Mexico is a country where the temples of the new gods are built on the gravesites of the old.
~ Don Winslow
The good old days sucked.
~ Don Winslow
Every second act, Reggie knows, is followed by a third.
~ Don Winslow
Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.
~ Don Winslow
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom under encouragement.
~ Donald A. Laird
Fail often, fail fast
~ Donald A. Norman
Norman's Law: The day the product team is announced, it is behind schedule and over its budget.
~ Donald A. Norman
One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old.
~ Donald A. Norman
I think most observance is really more a way of conceptualizing day-to-day life as what it actually is for many people, a progress of meaningful failures.
~ Donald Antrim
Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.
~ Donald Barthelme
Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
~ Donald Barthelme
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
~ Donald Barthelme