Echoes

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

I will either find a way, or make one.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

Arise, begin this very moment, and say, “Now is the time to do: now is the time to fight, now is the proper time for amendment.”

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I will either find a way or make one.

The sun is new each day.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.