Quotes About Progress

Estoy convencido de que el futuro de este país pertenece a los jóvenes de mi generación. •Gilberto Guevara Niebla, del CNH

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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

One lives in the naïve notion that later there will be more room than in the entire past.

One lives in the naive notion that "later" there will be more room than in the entire past.

The prevalent fashion has been to proclaim the latest revolution as the herald of a new day, and the newest turbulence as the necessary and beneficent prelude to an epoch of orderliness and justice.

I'm going to become whatever I was going to become.

Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress.

Why were we all so bad at writing stories? When would it get better?

I couldn't help thinking it was wasteful for people with such good logic skills to spend so many years and so much energy learning to reconcile an old book with the way things were now. Couldn't a person just write a new book?

W]e are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

We come done, complete as we are; we leave undone with unfulfilled changes.

Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

The way change occurs to begin with, if you come up with a good idea, like heathcare, you're ignored. If you go on you must be mad, absolutely stark-staring bonkers. If you go on after that you're dangerous. Then, if the pressure keeps up there's a pause. And then you can't find anyone at the top who doesn't claim to have thought of it in the first place. That's how progress is made.

Lie. Lie. Lie. But remember. Move. Move. While others sleep, move.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.