Quotes about Progress
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.
— Mary Nightingale
Every time we have a woman on-screen, we can empower her in a different way rather than just giving a speech on the importance of equality and empowerment. I think sometimes we have to show her as powerful.
— Zoya Akhtar
It's always the first 10,000 SoundCloud listens; that was definitely a big moment, seeing the online stuff grow and crowds grow.
— Flume
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
— Nelson Mandela
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
— Oscar Wilde
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)
— Oscar Wilde
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
— Oscar Wilde
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
— Oscar Wilde
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature
— Oscar Wilde
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.
— Oscar Wilde
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
— Oscar Wilde