If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it. — Susan Rice. American politician and diplomat (born 1964) Change
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.