Quotes About Progress

And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.

Perfection is static, and I am in full progress.

more damaging was his conviction that we live by a series of repetitions until the experience is solved, understood, liquidated...

One word I would banish from the dictionary is 'escape.' Just banish that and you'll be fine. Because that word has been misused regarding anybody who wanted to move away from a certain spot and wanted to grow. He was an escapist. […] You have a right to experiment with your life.

La derrota no es más que una fase para mí. Debo conquistar, vivir.

Perfection is static, and I am in full progress. The faithful wife is only one phase, one moment, one metamorphosis, one condition.

What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another. Jung has mentioned this. The neurotic is obsessed with one kind of problem. He cannot move on.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Stories do not end.

The end of every road is only the beginning of a new one, even longer and more difficult

Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide by, move forever onward?

El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.

Pour grandir, il faut porter loin de soi ses regards.Et puis ne regarder pas trop en arrière

L'homme se dégagera peu à peu de ce qui le protégeait naguère; de ce qui désormais l'asservit.

Connais toi-même. Maxime aussi pernicieuse que laide. Quiconque s'observe arrête son développement. La chenille qui chercherait à «bien se connaître» ne deviendrait jamais papillon.

Veo peor y se me cansan más deprisa los ojos. También oigo peor. Me digo que sin duda no es malo que se aleje así de nosotros, progresivamente, una tierra que de lo contrario nos costaría demasiado dejar; que nos costaría demasiado dejar de golpe. Lo admirable sería, al mismo tiempo, acercarse progresivamente a… otra cosa.

The things that soonest appear out of date are those that at first strike us as most modern.

Não estabelecer a sequência de meu romance no prolongamento das linhas já traçadas; aí está a dificuldade. Um surgimento perpétuo; cada novo capítulo deve levantar um novo problema, ser uma abertura, uma direção, um impulso, um lançamento para frente — da mente do leitor. Mas este deve me abandonar, como a pedra lançada deixa a funda. Consinto até que, bumerangue, ele volte a bater em mim.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

No hay problemas, solo soluciones.

But—a spaceship! It was something that had so long been laughed to scorn. When men had failed to go farther into space after the initial excitement of the moon landings, space flight had become a matter for jeers.

these new means always end up complicating things instead of making them easier? It was the same with medicine. Doctors had lost their "clinical eye" and relied only on test results. Meanwhile the police were losing their intuition and passively accepting scientific findings.

And the sad happiness said, You know precisely when you're going to finish.