Quotes About Progress

It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

When I was younger, I walked on my toes and made clicking sounds with my tongue. A therapist taught me how to stop.

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

Wonders have been born before. Sometimes they've been worshipped. There've been new things over and over, and some creatures have fallen groaning to the ground and others have learned to fly.

It is curious to observe how customs and ceremonies degenerate.

Soy David, ya me conoces –dijo, y se adelantó. –¡No, no te conozco! –David Stenfäldt, del pueblo... –¡Cierra la boca! –lo interrumpió Natte–. No puedo oír si hay alguien más por ahí. David no tenía ganas de continuar y dio un paso adelante.

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something.

I succeeded in teaching a number of the idiots from the asylums both to read and to write so well that I was able to present them at a public school for an examination together with normal children. And they passed the examination successfully.

While everyone was admiring the progress of my idiots, I was searching for the reasons which could keep the happy healthy children of the common schools on so low a plane that they could be equalled in tests of intelligence by my unfortunate pupils!

The moral degradation of the slave is, above all things, the weight that opposes the progress of humanity - humanity striving to rise and held back by this great burden. The cry of redemption speaks far more clearly for the souls of men than for their bodies.

From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

We wish the old things because we cannot understand the new, and we are always seeking after that gorgeousness which belongs to things already on the decline, without recognising in the humble simplicity of new ideas the germ which shall develop in the future.

Change must be a constant if we are willing to continuously challenge ourselves

Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.

Writing, and creativity in general, had been the domain of "great men" and would stay there until women stormed the arena, using words as their weapons.4

El que és segur és que hem guanyat la batalla contra la norma. Ja era hora. ("Ens fem imatges dels fets", Serra d'Or, 1981)

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.