Quotes About Progress

That's the trouble. I would be digging a ditch. They would say, That's no place for a man like you. Come up to the office. So I would be an overseer, and they would say That's no place for a man like you: Come into the building. Later they would say This is no job for a man like you, come higher up; and I would quit, and go and start digging a ditch somewhere else. You see?

When bad habits become a habit, you have to turn over a new leaf.

I simply wasn't born to remain in the same place for evermore...

Otra cosa más, chico, que tienes que recordar: lo que importa no es cómo empieza una historia. Ni cómo termina. -¿Entonces qué? -Lo que pasa en medio.

Nog één ding, jongen, wat je in je oren moet knopen: het gaat niet om hoe een verhaal begint. Ook niet om hoe het eindigt. Maar om wat daartussenin gebeurt.

Wenn schlechte Dinge zur Gewohnheit werden, muss man die Verhältnisse ändern.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn't excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.

The Aztecs invented the wheel, but didn't know how to use it except as a children's toy. Even though they built roads that to us scream out to have a wheel put on them, nonetheless they continued to drag things around. The society itself was blind to the possibilities.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Ten el valor de equivocarte. HEGEL

Las personas aprenden por ensayo y error y tú no escapas a ese principio.

Si no cambias, te cambian, ésa es la lógica del progreso. Si te quedas petrificado en la costumbre, la historia te pasa por encima. Está demostrado que los que se resisten al cambio suelen terminar aplastados por la contundencia de los hechos.

Las grandes decisiones siempre conllevan dolor, desorganización y perturbación.

futuro está almacenado en el pasado.

Sin obsesionarnos por ello, la búsqueda de la excelencia (superación no egocéntrica) y el perfeccionamiento (mejoramiento continuo) definen el arte de vivir.

La alegría no está en alcanzar el Yo ideal, sino en el proceso mismo de viajar hacia él sin despreciarse a sí mismo y sin ansiedad.

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Only rarely did violence directly lead to improvements, however temporary.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.