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Quotes About Progress

In the junior categories we wanted to mould the player. You must know what his strengths and weaknesses are, work on them and correct them.
~ Guillem Balagué
I'd love to work with the youth side, with the kids, because I've no pretensions that I'm ready to work at a higher level yet. You have to respect the fact that this is a process, a learning curve. The first steps are vital and there are no second chances once you step up.
~ Guillem Balagué
He continually learnt from everything he saw around him, from other teams, from coaches, from older team-mates. On one occasion, he asked a couple of his colleagues to repeat a free-kick routine he had seen the B side perform the previous weekend. The move led to a goal and their coach asked, 'Whose idea was that? And where did you pick that up?' 'From the grown-up players,' responded a fifteen-year-old Pep Guardiola.
~ Guillem Balagué
At the end of his spell in Argentina he felt that he was better prepared than ever before; not totally, because Pep will never allow himself to be completely satisfied, but he felt ready enough to start putting everything he had learnt to the test.
~ Guillem Balagué
What makes you grow is defeat, making mistakes. It is what keeps you alert. When you win you think: "Great, we've won.
~ Guillem Balagué
O de Ralph Waldo Emerson: «The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization». «El fin de la raza humana será que —eventualmente— morirá de civilización.»
~ Guillermo Arriaga
El comandante avanzaba a paso lento, bobeando como si fuera un pensionado
~ Guillermo Arriaga
But I can't be alone, can I? Of course not; I'm not that special. Anomalies like me exist all around the world. So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be? What if you and I are not the last of our kinds, but one of the first? The first of better creatures in a better wold? We can hope, can't we? That we're not of the past, but the future?
~ Guillermo del Toro
It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.
~ Guillermo del Toro
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Mortals don't understand life is not a book you close only after you read the last page. There is no last page in the Book of Life, for the last one is always the first page of another story.
~ Guillermo del Toro
What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?
~ Guillermo del Toro
So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be? What if you and I are not the last of our kinds, but one of the first? The first of better creatures in a better world? We can hope, can't we? That we're not of the past, but the future?
~ Guillermo del Toro
Los mortales no entienden que la vida no es un libro que cierras solo cuando has leído la última página. No existe tal cosa en el Libro de la Vida, ya que la última página siempre es la misma de la historia siguiente.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Sólo se tiene un futuro cuando no se tiene un presente". La
~ Guillermo Fadanelli
El fin no es más que el principio." Hasta
~ Guillermo Fadanelli
I was far away from where China was changing and was constantly reminded that more changes were around the corner.
~ Gungwu Wang
America is free to choose whether the Negro shall remain her liability or become her opportunity.
~ Gunnar Myrdal
It is fair to say that in our quest for modernity we have demonstrated considerable ignorance concerning the impact of our inventions.
~ Gunter Pauli
We have also realized that our biggest failure over the last fifty years has been of administrative and institutional incompetence and our inability to implement rather than of ideology.
~ Gurcharan Das
Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
~ Gus Van Sant
if the classic idea of the Atonement ever again resumes a leading place in Christian theology, it is not likely that it will revert to precisely the same forms of expression that it has used in the past; its revival will not consist in a putting back of the clock.
~ Gustaf Aulén
Revolution- a principle stepping over vast distances of time.
~ Gustav Landauer
Tradition is laziness.
~ Gustav Mahler