Things Are Getting Better Quotes by Bjorn Lomborg, Alan Kay, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anatole France, Peter Drucker, Marjorie Pay Hinckley and many others.
I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That’s why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
