“To make any kind of progress, we need to imagine a different reality and believe it's possible.”— Tali Sharot, twitter.com
“It's okay to take baby steps when you're an adult. A dream can grow up overnight.”— Tay Zonday, twitter.com
“So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there,…”— Chris Rock, vulture.com
“This work is bigger than any presidency and progress does not move in a straight line. The most important opportunities of Max's generation -- like curing all disease, improving education, connecting everyone and promoting equal opportunity -- will take long term focus and finding new ways for all o…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“What is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chan…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active --not more happy --nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”— Robert Heinlein, blog.newpathnetwork.org
“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”— J.R.R. Tolkien, amazon.com
“The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“We’re not done perfecting our union, or living up to our founding creed – that all of us are created equal and free in the eyes of God.”— Barack Obama, politico.com
“Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy. We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“Now, if you’re one of the 30 million Americans who don’t yet have health insurance, starting in 2014 this law will offer you an array of quality, affordable, private health insurance plans to choose from. Each state will take the lead in designing their own menu of options, and if states can come up…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“Look at the faces here around you, and you see an America that is more fair and more free and more just than the one Dr. King addressed that day. We are right to savor that slow but certain progress -– progress that’s expressed itself in a million ways, large and small, across this nation every sing…”— Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov
“The simple fact about progress is that the future of mankind has nothing to offer the individual life, except death.”— Hannah Arendt, nybooks.com