Quotes About Advancement

was on its way.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere.

I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could ever be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

Again, behavior is the criterion, and since the devotee is the standard for the most important part of life – spiritual advancement – his misbehavior is the greatest disservice to society.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

As long as I could keep improving my mind, I figured, I was doing okay.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

These things shall be—a loftier raceThan e'er the world hath known shall riseWith flame of freedom in their souls,And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a given period, we can form a fairly accurate impression of the chief preoccupations of society at that time and the points at which the boundaries of human endeavour are being advanced.

Not only is progress of the overall activity monitored but progress of each bit of it is monitored as well.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2 000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

In 1900, Lord Kelvin, the great British physicist, put it clearly: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

There is no possible protection from technology except by technology," he wrote. "When you create a new environment with one phase of technology,

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Already we see a trend in our own technological societies towards the fabrication of smaller and smaller machines that consume less and less energy and produce almost no waste. Taken to its logical conclusion, we expect advanced life-forms to be as small as the laws of physics allow.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Life's picking up speed.