Progress Quotes - Page 2

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that!

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared either in scope or in rapidity.

Charles de Gaulle

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

Anonymous

If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

Wendell Phillips

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Simeon Strunsky

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

New roads new ruts.

G.K. Chesterton

Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

George Santayana

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

This world of ours is a new world in which the unit of knowledge the nature of human communities the order of society the order of ideas the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new not because it has never been there before but because it has changed in quality.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old seek what they sought.

Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

George Bernard Shaw

The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Henry A. Wallace

To spur a willing horse.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on too long.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

If it is to be It is up to me.

William H. Johnson

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Look forward to failure. Fail quickly. If it does not start with Failure it is probably not meant to be

David Sikhosana

You need to be able to think Independently.

David Sikhosana

No elevator of progress with wells of prejudices. (Pas d'ascenseur de progrès - Avec puits de préjugés.)

Charles de Leusse

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

The word "impossible" is only in the mindAnd not in the heart.If we can remain in the heart,There will be no end to our progress.

We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

Don't waste tomorrow on yesterday.

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. Progress is obviously the antithesis of independent thinking. For under independent or individualistic thinking, every man starts at the beginning, and goes, in all probability, just as far as his father before him. But if there really be anything of the nature of progress, it must mean, above all things, the careful study and assumption of the whole of the past.

G.K. Chesterton

When used as a tool, fear will enhance your preparedness; when used as a guide, it will stop your progress.

Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn’t be more wrong.

Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

Progress is hard on history.

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a thousand lost golf balls.

T.S Eliot

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do.

Where there is will there is a way Where there is a way there is progress And where there is progress there is change.

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