Quotes About Progress

Im mixd up but Miss Kinnian says dont worry spelling is not suppose to make sence.

I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.

Cuanto más inteligente te vuelvas, más problemas tendrás, Charlie.

Depois da lição, desci e brinquei com Algernon. Nós não competimos mais.

Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

Why is it so important for me to say to her: "Mom, look at me. I'm not retarded any more. I'm normal. Better than normal. I'm a genius?

Algernon is so smart he has to solve a problem with a lock that changes every time he goes in to eat so he has to lern something new to get his food. That made me sad because if he coulnt lern he wouldnt be able to eat and he would be hungry.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth. And I think you'll find that as you progress, there will be many things you'll want to talk to me about. I just want you to remember that this is the place for you to come when you need help.

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than they are, but you're a genius. You'll keep going up and up, and see more and more. And each step will reveal worlds you never even knew existed.

Cada passo em frente era um cuidado. Em que ponto o chão cederia e me afundaria em ansiedade?

Ninguém realmente começa algo novo, sra. Nemur. Todo mundo constrói em cima das falhas de outros homens. Não existe nada original de verdade na ciência. A contribuição de cada homem à soma de conhecimento é o que conta.

You can't put up a building on a site until you destroy the old one, and the old Charlie can't be destroyed.

Human beings thrive when they are growing and developing and this requires discipline. Discipline and accountability keep us alive.

As you navigate your professional life, you will be faced with all kinds of trials and tribulations for which there will appear no feasible solution. Do you sit there trying to figure out what to do? No, you get moving. Problems—all problems—are solved not just by sitting and thinking, but by moving and doing.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

The world will not be saved by old minds with new programs. If the world is saved, it will be saved by new minds—with no programs.

No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing. Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison could invent the electric light-bulb.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.

Revolutios don't occur among people who are thinking in the same old way. Can't changed social or economic conditions produce a revolution? Surely you don't mean that. People produce revolutions, not conditions.