Simon Schama Quotes

We are all in the process of becoming.

We are an unfinished nation.

Life is a work in progress.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

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

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.

Life is an evolution.

Change won't happen overnight.

We are not evolved but evolving.

Growth is the process of responding positively to change.

Change is the essence of life.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

Becoming is better than being

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.