Quotes About Progress

Dejar el campo, irse a la ciudad, hacer carrera universitaria, tener coche, y prosperar hasta lograr tener una casa de campo...

La medianía fue neutral, luego positiva, después negativa y ahora tabú.

And even in circumstances less critical, women were almost always welcomed in new enterprises that hadn't yet become either prestigious or profitable—whether it was early radio or early cattle drives.

smart woman can do very well in this country. —A young woman in nineteenth-century California

And Emerson once claimed that we Americans needed the boundless West in order to become ourselves, to stop being pseudo-Europeans.

In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.

Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?

In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.

To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.

life was more like a game of Snakes and Ladders than a straight line.

The more road blocks the better.

A little education goes a long way in accomplishing four essential goals.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.

I think about what I've accomplished and my career. I care about how many wins I have and whether I'm accomplishing my goals.

By trying to advance the perfect conservative solution, nobody wins.

We've talked before what is important is week in, week out, getting wins and getting better.

You go into each game looking to win. We're not looking at wins or losses because it proves something as a team. We go into every game trying to get better. As long as you compete, we're gonna play our hearts out; we're improving every day.

The longer I'm in this sport, the more I realize that it's not about the wins and losses that makes you a good fighter. It's about putting the time in and fighting the best guys possible and going after them. The outcome will take care of itself.

The initial two or three wins that you get really give you a surge in confidence. That helps for the following games.

Tottenham is not a club that always wins, but we are trying to create something. It's not easy to fight against European monsters, but it is a motivation.

I look to constantly be a better version of myself every time I step out on court. That has come out with some good wins and good things on paper, but if my ranking were to drop or to rise, it wouldn't affect my goals or how I want to keep improving.

Sometimes, I don't enjoy the wins, and I don't enjoy the losses, but I'm here just to get the result and get moving.

I've experienced tournament wins with younger age groups and I know how good it feels - it's about carrying on.