Quotes About Progress

Since 1960 it has been known that villages preceded the discovery of agriculture.

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The domestication of fire—that is, the possibility of producing, preserving, and transporting it—marks, we might say, the definitive separation of the Paleanthropians from their zoological predecessors. The most ancient "document" for the use of fire dates from Choukoutien (about 600,000 B.C.), but its domestication probably took place much earlier and in several places.

About the past and the future? About innovation and tradition? About transition and the temporality of time?

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Most of us, she said, absolve ourselves of responsibility for change by sentimentalizing our pasts.

Ve? osamnaest milijuna godina hodamo na stražnjim nogama a još smo ?etveronošci uglavnom svi I što to zna?i znati ?itati i pisati kada pišemo ve? sigurno dulje od pedeset hiljada godina a svakih se stotinu godina rodi po jedan ?ovjek koji umije doista pisati a njega ne ?ita nitko

Everything else follows from this responsibility to those who have come before us. It is the root of flourishing humanity.

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.

But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.

Consider the word "time." We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

She would tell her that endings are also beginnings, we just don't know it at the time.