Progress Quotes
Topanga: Do I need to know the middle of the story?Corey: Do you want to be proud of her?Topanga: Yes.Corey: Then, no.
Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows.
Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.
In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.
Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.
There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.
Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!
Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.
A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.
It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.
Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.
When you keep seeking to improve, you will never get bored with your craft.
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.
Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren’t to be destroyed.
The only way you’re going to be defeated is if you allow your brain to shut down your body. If you stop making progress, you’re damned.
The mind is an innovation engine of any human progress, but also the root cause of almost all human problems.
Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.
Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it’s difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it’s simple to see growth over time.
There is no need for me to worry, I've already been here somany times and each time I have made it throughalive
Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.
Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.
It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.
Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.
