#ogres

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 is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. ↗

— Henry Ford

#progress #zeitgeist #men

Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #intent #life #motivational #movement

Reality always wins. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#inspiration #motivation #productivity #progress #reality

Van Halen is a work in progress. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#progress #van #van halen #work

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#conflict #ideas #intelligence #progress #war

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#become #biggest #biggest obstacle #christianity #had

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#america #been #brought #existence #feel

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ↗

— John Clapham

#economic #human #human progress #progress #same

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#causes #civilization #concern #forces #healthy

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#equations #getting #insight #line #point