Quotes About Advancement

Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

We must, nevertheless, always work at it, because not to advance in the spiritual life is to go back.

we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change—Progress. We need Progress!

There is no merit in an empire as such. Extension in space does not necessarily mean spiritual advancement. The small community is easier to govern, and, it may well be, more pleasant to live in. If its opportunities are limited its perils are also circumscribed.

how would you account for the mail Sammy drew from all over the country? From insurance companies in Hartford, from chain stores in the South, from mail-order houses in the Middle West, people were writing that I could not have written Sammy without personal knowledge of their own mail-room boy who had run over their backs to become office manager, and in some cases company president.

To innovate is not to reform.

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

before the Bessemer process, iron was hardened into steel at the rate of 3 to 5 tons a day; now the same amount could be processed in 15 minutes). Machines

We're alone then, all of us, even me, each treading a deserted highway, toting in a bundle on a shouldered stick the schemes, the flow charts, for unconscious advancement.

the) adjunct to a civilised existence.

than it had ever been before:

Have you ever heard of Arthur C. Clarke's third law of prediction? It states that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Take a smart phone and hand it to an ancient Roman. He'll think it's a magic window into the world of the gods and that the Beyoncé video playing on it is showing him Venus.

the Law of Bronwyn had proven true again and again, so often that it was simply accepted. "Once a species is introduced to interstellar spaceflight, it will advance technologically but not socially

When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

We have to let them grow, because young players can always improve. That goes for Jack Wilshere, too.

We have qualified for the 2010 World Cup qualification final round with young players and we will be able to advance in the competitions with the same players.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.

If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.