Quotes About Progress

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

It's not what you know-or when you see-that matters. It's about the journey.

It's smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It's a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward.

Internet access came before pride. 

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not really trying

He has the vision and energy to make Germany great.

Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

I love watching people's dreams come true.

Owning my faults is an easy thing for me. Learning from those realizations and breaking the cycle of making the same choices, that's the work.

Are we all ready to make a change, like we've been saying we are? Or are we expecting life to do it for us?

Man can only go forward by developing his reason, by finding a new harmony, a human one, instead of the prehuman harmony which is irretrievably lost. When

Das Wesentliche an der Existenz des Menschen ist ja, dass er sich über das Tierreich und seine instiktive Anpassung erhoben hat, dass er die Natur transzendiert hat, wenn er sie auch nie ganz verlässt.

THE GREAT PROMISE OF UNLIMITED PROGRESS—the promise of domination of nature, of material abundance, of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, and of unimpeded personal freedom—has sustained the hopes and faith of the generations since the beginning of the industrial age.

It is the laziness of mind to believe that what hasn't been , cannot be and will not be.

we—the proud people who started out to dominate nature—have become slaves of the very economic machine which we created in the process. We dominated nature, but our machine dominates us. We are perhaps more dominated by the artifacts we have created with our machines, than in many cultures people are dominated by nature which they have not learned to master.

Não se deve começar a aprender uma arte diretamente, mas, por assim dizer, indiretamente. Deve-se aprender grande número de outras coisas — às vezes aparentemente desconexas — antes de começar com a arte propriamente dita.

If human beings are ever to become free and to cease feeding industry by pathological consumption, a radical change in the economic system is necessary: we must put an end to the present situation where a healthy economy is possible only at the price of unhealthy human beings. The task is to construct a healthy economy for healthy people.

almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to

Az ember biológiai gyengesége alkotja az emberi kultúra alapját.

Living structures can be only if they become; they can exist only if they change. Change and growth are inherent qualities of the life process.

Joy, then, is what we experience in the process of growing nearer to the goal of becoming ourselves.