Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.

When used as a tool, fear will enhance your preparedness; when used as a guide, it will stop your progress.

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn’t happen every decade. 1983 isn’t that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from...

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

Theories might inspire you, but experiments will advance you.

Progress is learning to control your world.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to...

Talks are continuing, and we are making progress.

You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can’t afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well.

Who was where when has no impact on where you are now.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it...

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

We’ve made progress. We’re taking it step by step.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

Progress is hard on history.

Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact.

But what is the way forward? I know what it isn’t. It’s not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It’s not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep...

{From Lindsey’s address at the funeral of renowned scientist Luther Burbank. Burbank was one of the most beloved people in the early 20th century due to his countless contributions to humanity, but when, in an...

Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the liberal mind. And it must always become more and more...

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

After you’ve seen behind the facade of a stage set you can’t take the play seriously any more. You can’t go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist,...

Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that “unity is plural and at minimum two” – the complementary but...

Change is the parent of progress.

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. We are destined to be a barrier against the returns of...

After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection–not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose...

Every success and every bit of progress, is a building block for your next step.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight...

The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

(…)entre todas las razas del mundo, nuestra sed, o mejor dicho, nuestra avidez, de tesoros, de oro, de especias y de dominio, ¡oh, si!, sobre todo del dulce dominio, ¡es la más aguda, la más...

There has been quite a lot of progress made and I think we will continue to make progress,

These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would...

It doesn’t happen overnight. We’re delighted with Mike’s progress.

He suffered some collapse of one of his lungs. And we’re trying to reopen that and there’s good progress there.

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

Social progress: for the same price as last year, I get a slimmer candy bar, less chips per bag, and I have to walk a little further to work, because to spend the same amount...

Never confuse movement with action.

They make only progress. Instead of revenge, self progress is more safe to downgrade others including enemy.

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let’s be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.

We continue to make progress with ALPA and PFAA on reaching consensual agreements.

This project will never be over. It will always be a work in progress. There will always be something to add to it.

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

While we have made some progress, much is left to be done.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

These are tough issues, … It’s a work in progress.

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.