Quotes About Progress

Wie leicht alles wurde, wenn man aufbrach.

Una collina di cui non si conosce l'altitudine è un'offesa per la ragione e mi inquieta. Senza esaminare costantemente la propria posizione, nessun uomo può progredire. Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

The critical point is that knowing we can always get higher can be a real downer. It informs us that we are never going to reach the ultimate point of happiness because there is no ultimate point of happiness.

Recently, the scientific gods have grown kinder to psychologists.

Success is always more likely when you are swimming with the current rather than against it.

Opposition is a crucial part of growth and argument paves the way to wisdom.

Your job next year will not resemble your job this year. If it does, either your employer is not thriving or your position in the company is not secure.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

If the past is a wall with some holes, the future is a hole with no walls.

Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Shakespeare, Macbeth

war. A balanced peace is a poor fertilizer for promotion.

Vale lembrar que, até a década de 1960, havia uma ideia disseminada de que os indígenas, do jeito que estava sendo conduzida a política de Estado, não chegariam a conhecer o século XXI. Tal ideia estava baseada na visão integracionista, que profetizava que os indígenas aceitariam sua condição de neobrasileiros e passariam a viver uma vida mais apropriada aos princípios da 'civilização'.

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

Ten thousand grateful people jammed Sunday's enormous tabernacle to hear him announce the death of liquor and reveal the advent of an earthly paradise. "The reign of tears is over," Sunday proclaimed. "The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.

Until 1868 there wasn't a single school of architecture in the United States, and the conventional apprentice system proved of little utility when the first skyscrapers

In 1944, B-17 bomber formations dropped 9,070 bombs in order to hit one German building. In 1967, F-105 jet fighter-bombers used 176 munitions to knock out a single North Vietnamese building. By 1991, a smart F-16 fighter-bomber could do the job with thirty bombs, or just one, if the bomb was smart too.

Se oggi l'uomo non mangia più l'uomo, è unicamente perché la cucina ha fatto dei progressi!

A nascere sono buoni tutti.. Persino io sono nato! Ma poi bisogna divenire! DIVENIRE! Crescere, aumentare, svilupparsi, ingrossare... (senza gonfiare) accettare mutamenti (ma non mutazioni), maturare (senza avvizzire), evolvere (e valutare), progredire (senza rimbambire), durare (senza vegetare), invecchiare (senza troppo ringiovanire) e morire senza protestare

Au fond, ce journal aura été un perpétuel exercice d'accommodation. Échapper au flou, maintenir le corps et l'esprit dans le même axe… J'ai passé ma vie à « faire le point ».

Ils [ces professeurs habités par la passion communicative de leur matière] accompagnaient nos efforts pas à pas, se réjouissaient de nos progrès, ne s'impatientaient pas de nos lenteurs, ne considéraient jamais nos échecs comme une injure personnelle et se montraient avec nous d'une exigence d'autant plus rigoureuse qu'elle était fondée sur al qualité, la constance et la générosité de leur propre travail. (p. 259)