Quotes About Progress

Sparta ve Roma yok olduktan sonra, hangi devlet sonsuzcas?na sürüp gitmeyi umabilir? Sürekli bir yönetim biçimi kurmak istiyorsaki onu sonsuz yapmay? düÅŸünmeyelim.

me repetía este proverbio provinciano, algo menos exacto en París, que el que bien canta y bien danza trabaja mucho y no avanza.

Si algún progreso he hecho en el conocimiento del corazón humano, fue el placer que tenía en ver y observar a los niños lo que me valió tal conocimiento.

on peut acquérir la liberté; mais on ne la recouvre jamais

Your beginning, he said to me, is the rule of what will be required of you: seek to behave so as to do more afterwards, but watch out never to do less.

Ses progrès dans la géométrie vous pourraient servir d'épreuve et de mesure certaine pour le développement de son intelligence : mais sitôt qu'il peut discerner ce qui est utile et ce qui ne l'est pas, il importe d'user de beaucoup de ménagement et d'art pour l'amener aux études spéculatives.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau

I felt best when I was on the move, going someplace rather than being there.

I told Mom that maybe I had made a terrible mistake, but mom said sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

I found the gas, he said. Now all's I need to do is find the brake.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

movements never quite exist, they are passages, intermediaries between two existences, moments of weakness, I expected to see them come out of nothingness, progressively ripen, blossom: I was finally going to surprise beings in the process of being born.

they think about Tomorrow, that is to say, simply, a new today;

If I were ever to go on a trip, I think I should make written notes of the slightest traits of my character before leaving, so that when I returned I would be able to compare what I was and what I had become.

Fabrikalar, k?rsal alan? mahvediyordu ve büyükbabam, soyut bilimlerde yaln?zca soyutluÄŸu seviyordu.

Mighty king, come from so far, prepared by so many combinations, by so many vanished gestures. He disappears in turn, so that other combinations can be born, other gestures, attacks, counterattacks, turns of luck, a crowd of small adventures.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail - if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.