Quotes About Progress

I feel as I were disintegrating and "growing up", whatever that means, simultaneously.

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction—creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically. Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?

once in a meeting about our written reports. "When you guys finish your shows, take that file and throw it out. Do not keep one piece of paper, because next year when we have to come back and do this again, it will force you to rethink everything you did, not just pick up from where you left off and implement the same procedures and production elements that you did last year.

If you're talking about what you did yesterday, you're not doing much today.

Time passes in a linear trajectory, utilize your path along it wisely.

involution always precedes evolution

Biology taught me that a field undergoing development should be investigated always from the viewpoint of its past development. Who today would study anatomy without embryology? In exactly the same way epistemology without historical and comparative investigations is no more than an empty play on words or an epistemology of the imagination.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Some of the women, it must be said, had not yet accepted the idea that a woman could be Municipal President. They had been told that they were moody and flighty and illogical and incapable for so long that they believed these things.

Life shifting, as life does

Progress might be inevitable, but there was no reason they should knuckle under without a fight.

People who grow, question what they know.

A gente vive para a frente, mas compreende para trás, ninguém na época disse "Oba, começou a Renascença!

Concluí que os livros nos enlevam, mas nunca o bastante, e que ao mesmo tempo que nos aproximam de uma revelação final podem nos distrair e atrasar nosso progresso.

Abandono mi pasado, pero no quiero olvidarlo. Por eso apuntaré lo que debo recordar.

Lo que veo es que cada vez hablás peor, repetiste mil veces las mismas palabras.

Nadie quiere cambiar las cosas?

iría viendo cómo se iba haciendo chiquita la ciudad de méxico y adiós ángel de la independencia y adiós caballito y adiós monumento a la revolución ¿verdad?

And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.