Quotes About Progress

e continuiamo a remare, barche contro corrente, risospinti senza posa nel passato.

Siempre decías que un hombre aprende cosas y cuando deja de aprenderlas es como todos los demás

You never came out the way you came in.

We're the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter.

Henry Ford said: "Anyone who stops learning is old—whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Failures mean nothing at all if success comes eventually. And that's a thought that should cheer you up and help you keep on keeping on when the going seems hard. Keep going! Each week, each month, you are improving. One day soon, you will find a way to do the thing that today looks impossible.

Do you believe in yourself and the things you want to do? Are you prepared for many setbacks and failures? Whatever your calling may be, each error, each failure is like a strike-out. Your greatest asset is the number of strike outs you have had since your last hit. The greater the number, the nearer you are to your next hit.

My great concern,' said Lincoln, "is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." Thomas Edison had ten thousand failures before he invented the incandescent bulb. Edison made up his mind that each failure brought him that much closer to success.

Even in the later innings of our lives, we have unplumbed abilities, untaxed muscles, flexibility, growth.

A leadership team cannot be effective if its understanding of change is erroneous, incomplete, misinformed or outdated.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

For what do you hunger, Lord?" Moneo ventured. "For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?" "You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate

Only fools prefer the past!

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.

Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.