Quotes About Progress

Cada estação da vida é uma edição, que corrige a anterior, e que será corrigida também, até a edição definitiva, que o editor dá de graça aos vermes.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

in any group, someone has to lead, and it might as well be a woman - provided she has done the work necessary to prepare.

Historie se žije dopÃ…â"¢edu, ale píÅ¡e dozadu.

When You don't know what to do, just do whatever comes next and go from there.

When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lies ahead for you?

Consider all the demands that are placed on government, then factor in the gargantuan changes that have taken place in the past seven decades: the end of colonialism, the lifting of the Iron Curtain, the narrowing of the North–South divide, the revolution in technology, and the increased mobility of people. By any objective standard, democracy—though everywhere tested—has not failed and is not failing. Why, then, do we feel so often that it has and is?

He initiated a campaign to drenare la palude ("drain the swamp")

With help from its friends, however, democracy can almost always be repaired, then made better.

Instead, we prepare for the next jump, then the one after, until after a lifetime of motion is past, we are startled, at least a little, by where we are and by what we have become.

I felt hemmed in by barriers that men were allowed to climb over or walk around. In this, I shared a desire with many women of my era—and yes, later eras—for greater freedom.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

It's foolhardy to think that a story ends

What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not the ever, infinitely, unbearably unchanging yesterday. She

I should remember that I be just as worthy now as I will be when this is done.

Those who see errors as opportunities to learn and try again are the people who will most quickly find new solutions. (This is how our children become resilient.) Those who freeze and panic when they make mistakes will find it much harder to adapt.

I also know two steps forward and one step back is the rule, not the exception, as people work on change.

If thirty years of being a psychologist has taught me anything, it is that it is much easier to talk about things than to change them.

No wonder I have been so slow, I thought. All this while, I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.

I could have sat and worked awhile, but the change of hands would show in the cloth.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.