Greg Lake Quotes

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

There is no such thing as standing still.

Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

Everything has to keep moving forward in 'Endeavour.' Otherwise, it will stagnate.

It ain't about going backwards. It's about moving forward.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

You are either going forward or you are not.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Movement isn't progress.

The great thing in this word is not so much where we stand, as in which direction we are moving.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

History is in motion, and those moving with it are so caught up that they cannot always see its broad outlines

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind's forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

You have to keep building. Movements have to move forward.

Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.