Quotes About Progress

as I walked through the modern Carrousel.° The old Paris is gone. A town's complexion, like human hearts, never stays put at all.

Podría compararse este tipo de obra con un puro trabajo manual que debe cubrir cierta cantidad de espacio en un tiempo determinado, o con una larga ruta con un gran número de etapas. Cuando se ha completado una etapa, no hay que volver a hacerla; y cuando se ha recorrido la ruta entera, el artista se libra del cuadro.

Belief in progress is a doctrine of the slothful, a doctrine of the Belgians. It is the individual who relies on his neighbors to tend his affairs. There can be no progress (true, that is, moral) save in the individual and by the individual himself. But the world is composed of folks who can think only in common, in bands. Thus the Belgian societies. There are also folks who can amuse themselves only in droves. The true hero find his pleasure alone.

Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du Diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas !

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.

It began as a mistake.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

I am this fiery snail crawling home.

Let' em learn or let' em die

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

We use such big words to move nowhere.

Maybe she hadn't saved the world but she had made a major improvement.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

I tried teeling myself that feeling guilty was just a sickness of some sort. That it was men without guilt who made progress in life. Men who were able to lie, to cheat, men who knew all the shortcuts. Cortez. He didn't fuck around. Neither did Vince Lombardi. But no matter how much I thought about it, I still felt bad.

I'm quitting. Quitting? Yes, you can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

he tells me that he has seen me in issue No. 5 of Crablegs and Muletears and that I am getting better, and I tell him that I am a slow starter and being only 42

This future running toward us paralyzes the wallet and the brain.

But before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

Vaya sorpresa que te vas a llevar, amigo... ¡cuando descubras que nosotros los viejos retrógrados queremos también un mundo mejor! ¡sólo que no somos partidarios de QUEMAR la casa para librarnos de las termitas!