Quotes About Progress

Generational curses are actually blessings in disguise; the mistakes were already made for you, now all you have to do is apply the solutions.

Movies take years to bring to theater, but hours to watch. Strikingly similar to success.

Personal development is a lifelong commitment to excellence.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676. The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres: Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.

If I had seen further than others, it's because I stood upon the shoulders of giants.

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

N?u tôi nhìn ???c xa h?n, ?y là vì tôi ??ng trên vai nh?ng ng??i kh?ng l?

Wenn ich weiter sehen konnte, so deshalb, weil ich auf den Schultern von Riesen stand.

Wenn ich weiter als andere gesehen habe, dann nur deshalb, weil ich auf der Schulter von Giganten stand.

N?u nh? tôi ?ã nhìn ???c xa h?n thì ?ó là b?i vì tôi ?ã ???c ??ng trên vai c?a nh?ng ng??i kh?ng l?

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

No man is obliged to learn and know every thing; this can neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible; yet all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding; otherwise it will be a barren desert, or a forest overgrown with weeds and brambles. Universal ignorance or infinite errors will overspread the mind which is utterly neglected and lies without any cultivation. Skill

Once a day....call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

We can change by changing our attitudes and patterns of behavior. In so doing, we change our destiny.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.