Quotes About Progress

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

I am now obsessed with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have.

The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!

With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.

Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade:

To bend the work of nature to your will; to make the trees of the earth useful to human beings - what could be more admirable , more exciting than this? That is what I would say to any boy who has his life before him.

To want to be ahead, and to celebrate and mythify this endeavor, is indeed one of the most powerful impulses of modernity itself.

the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma. But behind this faith in the diploma there was something else, something more complicated, more secret, and that is that girls in those days, even modern girls, like us, girls who went to school and then to university, were always taught that women are entitled to an education

Anyone willing to change," Shmuel said, "will always be considered a traitor by those who cannot change and are scared to death of change and don't understand it and loathe change.

Há boas e más novas no café. A má, é que o tempo corre. A boa, é que o tempo cura.

Amulya Malladi

Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.

What you forget, living here, is that just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

It's the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

That's the first step to learning: admitting what you don't know.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.

Some of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

Cuándo algo va contra tu naturaleza no estás equilibrado... Por eso nunca puedes avanzar, siempre estás retrocediendo.

when fate turns out well, everyone should forget the bad road that got us here.

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.