Quotes About Progress

wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.

In my personal struggle for maturity, I am gradually becoming aware of new insights, which tend as if of the themselves to want to slip away from me.

It is not wise to mistake great effort for productive effort

I lived on anger, but it's the kind of fuel that uses you up even when it's pushing you forward.

That's how the universe keeps going, arii. It makes itself new in every generation that discovers it for the first time.

If there is road in front of me, I will follow it. I don't mind where it goes, as long as it takes me forward.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish. The first few years, I wrote very little. A single recurrent image was blocking my progress: a man lying naked on an iron bed, a sparrow perched on his arm, his chest illuminated by a cold beam of light. Those 10 years were a struggle to prove to myself the power and meaning of that single beam of light.

Deixa lá dizer o Pascal que o homem é um caniço pensante. Não; é uma errata pensante, isso sim. Cada estação da vida é uma edição, que corrige a anterior, e que será corrigida também, até a edição definitiva, que o editor dá de graça aos vermes.

Every season of life is an edition that corrects the one before and which will also be corrected itself until the definitive edition, which the publisher gives to the worms gratis.

Segundo Monteiro Lobato, "um país se faz com homens e livros". Podemos extrapolar e dizer que os sonhos de uma nação se tecem em sua literatura. A cada nova leitura dessas obras, os sentidos ali registrados se renovam, iluminando o passado, contrastando-se com o presente e enriquecendo as aspirações para o futuro. Assim, mais que a história, a literatura é o testemunho palpitante de um povo.

Each season in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one, which will in turn be corrected again, until we reach the definitive edition, which the editor donates for free to the worms.

Ogni stagione della vita è una nuova edizione, che corregge la precedente e sarà corretta a sua volta fino all'edizione definitiva, che l'editore dà in regalo ai vermi.

não tendo alcançado nada caminhando em linha reta, procurou ver se alcançava caminhando por linha curva. Às vezes é o caminho mais curto. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Esta outra independência não tem Sete de Setembro nem campo de Ipiranga; não se fará num dia, mas pausadamente, para sair mais duradoura; não será obra de uma geração nem duas; muitas trabalharão para ela até perfazê-la de todo.

Some died, others were born

Each season of life is an edition, which corrects the previous one, and that will be corrected also, until the definitive edition, that the publisher gives free to the worms.

O major, porém, continuava a andar com aquele passo rápido dos majores que andam depressa.

Tempora mutantur.

come piante novelle, Rinovellate di novelle fronde.

Damn all fixed ideas!

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. No; he is a thinking erratum, that's what he is. Each season of life is an edition that corrects the last and that will be corrected in turn until the definitive edition, which the editor delivers to the worms, free of charge.

Necessity is what impels men to take action, and once necessity is gone, only rot and decay are left

Mankind do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.