"Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible."

-- Frank H. T. Rhodes

#Progress Quotes #Humans Quotes #Human Progress Quotes

“As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?”
“Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.”
“Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.”
“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.”
“Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.”
“Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.”
“I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause.”
“There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.”

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