Quotes About Progress

With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot.

It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god's handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There's not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?

Hace unos días encontré, entremedio de sus papeles, el discurso que dio el arquitecto Renzo Piancuando cuandofue galardonado con el Pritzker. Natasha había subrayado la siguiente frase: «Ã¢â'¬Â¦ y asi seguimos remando contra la corriente empujados sin pausa hacia el pasado. Es una imagen maravillosa, que representa la condición humana. El pasado es un refugio seguro, una tentación constante y, sin embargo, el futuro es el único sitio donde podemos ir».

Leggevo, leggevo, leggevo. Ampliare le proprie conoscenze è un dramma ... "perché ogni passo in più che fai ti rende sempre più cosciente di quanto ancora ti manca da conoscere. E ti ritrovi sempre più lontano dalla soddisfazione delle tue curiosità ... E alla fine la pila di libri sul comodino continua a crescere e non basterebbero nemmeno dieci anni ..." (Pagina 71)

La historia se ha escrito al margen de nosotras, pero nosotras mismas la hemos moldeado desde atrás.

No es el cambio el que de verdad duele, se dijo, es la resistencia a él. Y se sintió

It can't be the best day in the history of the entire earth. Because tomorrow is going to be even better.

This doesn't mean anything about the real world and the way justice is dispensed. Or the way it should be dispensed. It won't always be this way. It may never be this way again. Ahead

In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals.

La vida hay que vivirla mirando hacia el futuro, pero solo se entiende si tenemos en cuenta nuestro pasado.

condition of the woman

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?

Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events that go before are soon covered by those that come after.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

Set yourself in motion, if it is in your power, and do not look about you to see if anyone will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

The knowledge of what we are ignorant of seems to expand faster than our catalogue of breakthroughs.