Quotes About Progress

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

Wenn einer in die Irre geht, dann heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er nicht auf dem richtigen Weg ist.

Alle wesentlichen Dinge sind einfach, wenn man sie erst einmal begriffen hat. Schwierig ist nur der Weg, den man bis dahin gehen muss.

Was kann ein Lehrer denn schon taugen, dem seine Schüler nicht über den Kopf wachsen?

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth

Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.

the Church and her exegesis of revelation progress through the ever-changing periods of world history. New aspects emerge, while others wane; efforts are made to compensate for one-sided emphases, but not rarely they are simply replaced with the opposite extremes. Today too, then, it is a duty to restate the principles in a new and timely way—while being as measured as possible—and in so doing to retrieve what is of permanent value.

Bu kitab? da ismine adad???m?z Charles Nicolle, 1909'da tifüsün bit arac?l???yla geçti?ini ke?fetmi?ti. Sava?ç?lar, politikac?lar, milliyetçiler ve sava?lardan sorumlu olan di?er insanlar, dünyay? bir yüz y?l daha rahat b?raksayd? bu bulu?, Bat?'daki epidemik tifüsün sonu anlam?na gelebilirdi.

Quite obviously, a theoretical determination of the numerical value of ? would signify great progress in our understanding of fundamental interactions. Many physicists have tried to find it, but without significant success to this day. Richard Feynman, the theory wizard of Caltech in Pasadena, once suggested that every one of his theory colleagues should write on the blackboard in his office: 137 -- how shamefully little we understand!

Actually it's quite amazing. One year back, even the Ambani's didn't know who was Hardik Pandya."

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.

And this is the stuff," said he to himself, "that makes possible the civilization that produces them.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

There's always one more thing you can do to influence any situation in your favor—and after that one more thing, and after that…. The more you do the more opportunities arise.

John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.

For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.

Someday science will supply all of us with washboard abs.

Planning is deciding in advance what to do and how to do it. Planning bridges the gap between where we are and where we want to go. It makes it possible for things to occur which would not otherwise happen.