Quotes About Advancement

State of the Art is the frenetic and relentless pursuit of doing what its best at that time!

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.

If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Where I am at, is not actually where I am at. Where I am at is merely a point on the path to where I am going.

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.