John Burns Quotes

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Without reforms we will repeat the failures of the past.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

Don't be content with things as they are.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Reform that you may preserve.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

Great men grow.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.