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Progress And Change Quotes

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Charlton Ogburn
Teamwork, Progress And Change, Creating
"Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Henry Steele Commager
Inspirational, Progress And Change, Progress

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis
Change, Progress And Change, Progress
Impressions and Comments (1914) 31 July 1912

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

John Ruskin
Progress And Change, Perfect, Essentials
John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.14

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