Quotes About Progress

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

When we refuse to forgive others of their wrongs - even blaming them for our circumstances - we cripple ourselves from moving forward.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

De modo que llegó una época, quizá, en la que para algunas especies el ritmo al que aumentaba el aprendizaje alcanzó una pendiente tal que, de repente, ocurrió una cosa completamente nueva; un animal podía aprender cosas, transmitirlas a otro y a otro con la suficiente rapidez para que no se perdieran para la especie. Así fue posible una acumulación de saber de la especie. A veces a esto se le ha llamado enlazar el tiempo.

Intentamos demostrar que estamos equivocados tan rápidamente como sea posible, porque solo de esta manera podemos encontrar el progreso.

Una de las maneras de hacer que la ciencia se detenga sería hacer experimentos únicamente en las áreas de las que se conoce la ley.

Si la ciencia ha de avanzar, lo que necesitamos es la capacidad de experimentar, honestidad a la hora de informar de los resultados (los resultados han de difundirse sin que nadie diga cómo le hubiera gustado que fueran los resultados) y finalmente, una cosa importante, la inteligencia para interpretar los resultados.

This is going to be a little uncomfortable

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Do something every day to change your attitude—instead of trying to think your way into right acting, act your way into right thinking. Act the person you want to be, and gradually that's the person you will become.

Things change, and not always for the better.

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

Everything looks new, but then that is the nature of science.

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

action makes all the difference. (Chapter 1)

Keep things flowing in the direction of accomplishing your goals and nourishing your soul. (Chapter 4)

Je hebt al zoveel gedaan. - Torak, tegen Renn

You can't unscramble eggs.