One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

No great thing is created suddenly.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Change alone is unchanging.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

All things are only transitory.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I have no faith in human perfectability. 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.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.