„Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress?“
Interview track from Charles Manson Sings (2006)
Charles Manson3
amerikanischer Krimineller 1934 - 2017Ähnliche Zitate
— Hillary Clinton American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady 1947
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)
Kontext: It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.
„If you want something different, DO something different. Without change progress is impossible.“
— Steve Maraboli 1975
Quelle: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 132
„Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.“
— John Wooden American basketball coach 1910 - 2010
Quelle: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
— Clive Staples Lewis, buch Christentum schlechthin
Book I, Chapter 5, "We Have Cause to Be Uneasy"
Mere Christianity (1952)
„Not all that we call progress is progress.“
— Paul Harvey American broadcaster 1918 - 2009
Regular tag lines
„Change is one thing, progress is another.“
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)
„The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.“
— Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826
Letter to Edward Carrington, Paris (27 May 1788) PTJ, 13:208-9 http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/natural-progress-things-quotation
1780s
Quelle: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
„Only killers call killing progress“
— Matthew Good Canadian singer-songwriter 1971
Musical Works, Hospital Music, Black Helicopter
„You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.“
— Edward de Bono Maltese physician 1933
Quelle: Lateral Thinking : Creativity Step by Step (1970), p. 8.
„If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.“
— Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935
— Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmental and political activist 1940 - 2011
Speech at Goldman Awards, San Francisco (24 April 2006)
— Shunryu Suzuki, buch Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Pt. 1 : Right Practice, "Bowing"
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)
„The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.“
— Warren Buffett American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930
— Charles Kettering American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents 1876 - 1958
quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957 page 106 ( Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/professionalamat013190mbp)
— Robert T. Kiyosaki American finance author , investor 1947
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
„I tell you all this because it's important to note progress.“
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2016, Howard University commencement address (May 2016)
Kontext: Racism persists. Inequality persists. Don’t worry — I’m going to get to that. But I wanted to start, Class of 2016, by opening your eyes to the moment that you are in. If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn’t know ahead of time who you were going to be — what nationality, what gender, what race, whether you’d be rich or poor, gay or straight, what faith you'd be born into — you wouldn’t choose 100 years ago. You wouldn’t choose the fifties, or the sixties, or the seventies. You’d choose right now. If you had to choose a time to be, in the words of Lorraine Hansberry, “young, gifted, and black” in America, you would choose right now.
I tell you all this because it's important to note progress. Because to deny how far we’ve come would do a disservice to the cause of justice, to the legions of foot soldiers; to not only the incredibly accomplished individuals who have already been mentioned, but your mothers and your dads, and grandparents and great grandparents, who marched and toiled and suffered and overcame to make this day possible. I tell you this not to lull you into complacency, but to spur you into action — because there’s still so much more work to do, so many more miles to travel. And America needs you to gladly, happily take up that work.
