Quotes About Progress

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.

Vivir es pasar de un espacio a otro sin golpearse

Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.

Si parte da un dettaglio qualsiasi, talvolta di poco conto, e senza volerlo si giunge a scoprire grandi princìpi.

All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers' syndicates

On doit procéder par tâtonnements, essayer des hypothèses vraisemblables et partielles se contenter d'approximations provisoires, de manière à laisser toujours la porte ouverte à des corrections progressives.

Childhood and youth are full of verbs. You can't sit still. Everything in you is growing, gushing forth, developing. Later the verbs are gradually replaced by the nouns of middle age. Kids, cars, work, family—the substantial things of the substantives. Growing old is an adjective. We enter into the adjectives of old age—slow, boundless, hazy, cold, or transparent like glass.

Soon after that we would go our separate ways, grow cold, forget one another, the rebels would grow tame as teaching assistants in the universities, the sworn bachelors and party animals would be pushing baby carriages and zoning out in front of their TV, the hippies would get regular haircuts at the local barbershop.

Your grandmother had an icon, your mother had a little portrait of Lenin, and you have your TV.

Without someone to set the pendulum's swing, we wouldn't know where to find the middle. None of us in the business of making changes gets everything we want, the extremists allow us to look like moderates and to go after changes that will make a difference.

When you spend all your time looking back—" "You miss the opportunities ahead,

You are the hope and the promise for change. Without you, not only can't we accomplish what needs to be done, we will lose everything we have gained." As

The days you work are the best days.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

It's a distillation of all I know about writing: short-story writing, screenwriting, journalism—everything. There is no future in the novel, so far as I can see. I'm trying to show where writing is going to be. I may not get there, but I will point the way." In

Progress,' said Audrey shortly....'It's important to destroy [nature] so we can have more electricity so that we can then have colour television to show us what the world is really like.

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

I just didn't go back.

Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.

One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.

problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way

In this business, it takes all the running you can do just to stay in the same place. The

Repeatedly curing a system that can cure itself will eventually create a system that can't.