Quotes About Advancement

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

For every state, from the smallest to the largest, the principle of enlargement is the fundamental law of life.

Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?

Sequels always have to be bigger.

All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have.

Progress is learning to control your world.

If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step.

maybe we can take a whole lot of little steps that, when looked at together, might seem brilliant to somebody who doesn't know us.

She was all for progress in general, but far too often it seemed to stratify society rather than unite it.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.

tudta, hogy egy civilizáció akkor éri el legfejlettebb, utolsó elÅ'tti szakaszát, amikor a káosz a rend álcájában parádézik, és tudta, hogy már elérkeztünk oda.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.