Quotes about Progress

If I had stopped asking questions, that's where I would have remained.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.

Someone once wondered why it is that if a work of Man is destroyed, it is called vandalism, but if a work of nature, of God, is destroyed it is so often called progress.

One could argue that the human intellect was the greatest mistake in evolution—a mistake that is now threatening all life on the planet.

But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

Laverne Cox, Isis King, Janet Mock, Our Lady J, Ryan Murphy, Steven Canals, the people I've met growing up, and even me - all have inspired me to see that it is possible to get far anywhere and that the capacity for positive and motivating influence is truly unlimited.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

I'm unusual in that I've worked more as I've got older.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.