Quotes About Progress

Nunca son los mismos quienes construyen y quienes derriban.

Roy Peter Clark

the act of writing will make you a better student, a better worker, a better friend, a better citizen, a better parent, a better teacher, a better person. I

Conquest of Disease, The Conquest of Pain, The Conquest of Tuberculosis, The Conquest of Cancer, The Conquest of the Unknown and The Conquest of Brain Mysteries

Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed masters.

la monstruosa, la tormentosa, la irresistible capital del cheque. Rodeada de islas menores, tiene cerca a Jersey; y agarrada a Brooklyn

Não haverá borboletas se a vida não passar por longas e silenciosas metamorfoses

Suspeito que estejamos vivendo um momento de metamorfose da nossa condição humana. Até agora temos sido habitantes do mundo da vida. Nosso habitat é constituído por florestas, animais, rios e mares. Somos seres biológicos, corpos. Mas agora estamos mudando de casa. Estamos trocando nossa casa biológica por uma outra casa, eletrônica.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Every future turns into the past. The richness of your past dictates what you are today. It's not your decision what you are today, but what you will be tomorrow. This is where a part of your decision comes into play.

So this is the human condition: we're living longer, getting taller, and are a push of a finger away from every other person on the planet and yet we do not know how to run ourselves.

we're living longer, getting taller, and are a push of a finger away from every other person on the planet and yet we do not know how to run ourselves. Maybe we're not supposed to know and when we're finished filling the world with parking lots, muffin shops and Starbucks, our point on Earth is finished and with one big cataclysmic boom we'll be gone.

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Society reproduces itself antagonistically.

Some day, when I have grown sufficiently, I shall attain that which I am destined to attain

We suffer because with every inner and outer suffering we eliminate one of our faults and become transformed into something better.

In the universe we have not to do with repetitions, each time that a cycle is passed, something new is added to the world's evolution and to at its human stage of development

Jeder Fortschritt, den eine Kirche in dem Aufbau ihrer Dogmen macht, führt zu einer Bändigung des freien Geistes; jedes neue Dogma verengt den Kreis des freien Denkens. Die Naturwissenschaft umgekehrt befreit mit jedem Schritte ihrer Entwicklung. Sie gestattet dem Einzelnen in vollem Maße wahr zu sein.

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

That was my big realization twenty years ago. It all passes. Here I am at the bathroom door, and how can I ever get to the sink? How can high school ever end, how can I ever finish college, how can I ever be married? But then I'm at the sink, I'm back out the door, I have a Ph.D., I'm married with three kids, and twenty years have passed. Here I am alive, and how can I ever die? But I will, I know I will, I know it in my soul.

where we start in life doesn't define who we will become.

Funny how the new things are the old things.