Quotes about Progress

There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ? Pablo Picasso

I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else."-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17

Alignment cannot be achieved with one good speech from the bridge of the ship—it is established one person at a time. Even though everyone is in the same boat, heading in the same direction, it's quite likely they are going there for different reasons. Yes, working through these issues one person at a time is time consuming, but not as time consuming and frustrating as dealing with lack of alignment when the boat is in the middle of a storm, part way to its destination.

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

The Chinese have a proverb pregnant with the age-old wisdom of the Orient: 'He who treads softly goes far.

In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

we only move toward what moves us.

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

five words from a church hymn: One step enough for me. Lead, kindly Light … Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough