Quotes About Progress

Do men learn from women? Often. Do they admit it publicly? Rarely, even today.

I always have to prove that I can be better

El sueño de progreso sin límites es, en realidad, una pesadilla llena de ferocidad y muerte.

El mundo está prodigiosamente cambiado y les pertenece cada vez más a ellas, cada vez menos a mí [...] lo que cuenta son estas muchachas tan competentes que no se han encontrado ni una de las dificultades con las que yo he tenido que vérmelas. Tienen unos modales, unas voces, unas exigencias, unas pretensiones, una conciencia de sí mismas que yo ni siquiera hoy me atrevo a permitirme.

El mundo da vueltas, menos mal, si se cae, se rompe.

para el que no es nadie convertirse en alguien es más importante que cualquier otra cosa.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

está acontecendo algo de grandioso, que vai dissolver completamente o velho modo de viver, e eu sou parte dessa dissolução.

The problem is that real change takes a long time, while life hits us right away, now, with all its contradictions.

Aquela sua última frase, o pulo elegante do maldizer ao elogio, parecia-me tão bem-sucedida que pensei que a normalidade adulta era uma rte deste tipo. Eu precisava aprender.

how much work I've done and what a long road I've traveled. At every step I could have given in and yet I didn't.

o sonho de progresso sem limites é na realidade um pesadelo cheio de desumanidade e de morte.

Se uno non prova, non cambia niente

To be born in that city—I went so far as to write once, thinking not of myself but of Lila's pessimism—is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions, everyone is beginning to claim: that the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.

the park had climbed up to

o sonho de um progresso sem limites é na verdade um pesadelo cheio de fúria e de morte.

I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes. Day by day I grew calmer.

I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

What we were at the beginning is only a vague patch of colour contemplated from the edge of what we have become.

If you don't try, nothing ever changes.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.

Avanzo lentamente, estoy muy lejos de pintar como el pájaro canta, como lo pedía Renoir. Pero soy tu pájaro al fin y al cabo y he anidado para siempre entre tus manos.

La finalidad de la vida no es prosperar sino transformarse. Cuando uno se lanza a lo desconocido se salva.