Quotes about Progress

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. In art, as in politics, there is but one origin for all revolutions, a desire on the part of man for a nobler form of life, for a freer method and opportunity of expression

For the past is what man should not have been.  The present is what man ought not to be.  The future is what artists are.

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.