Progress Quotes

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Though Pindaric, it is not in dactylo-epitrites but in alcaics - but we must not stand in the way of progress...

I think we peaked at flint tools.

We're just apes with broadband.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

A man who sets his face against every sort of humbug is simply a three-cornered, impracticable fellow. There's a bad sort of humbug, but there is also a good style - one that oils the wheels and makes progress possible. If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas... There is no action possible without a little acting.

Buy only from lists thoughtfully constructed before going into stores. Make yourself wait for things so that you appreciate them.

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

"The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction."

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.

Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.

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

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

My idea of goin' places is to make a success of things where you are.