Quotes About Progress

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved die absolute rejection of authority.

Well begun is half done.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

It is the beginning of the end.

I read part of it all the way through.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Cost little less than new before they're ended.

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

belongs anywhere, even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

The big unions served a noble purpose once, and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.