Quotes About Progress

You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.

alumbrar la nueva era tiene enfrente, siempre, el freno descomunal de los privilegiados.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

I once asked her if she was happy. "That depends on what I am able to get done today," she said, laughing.

I once asked her if she was happy. "That depends on what I am able to get done

Life Is Like A Train But We Have To Become Engine Which Controls The Train

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

If something hasn't happened, it's not because it can't happen, or won't: it just hasn't happened yet." More

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance." —ORVILLE WRIGHT, AMERICAN INVENTOR

People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

as long as we are living, there is always time to expand the story.

I hear the doc gave you a thumbs-up on your surgery -Marc to Julian

It had been like watching a rose bloom, its soft petals slowly spreading, revealing its beauty bit by bit, then opening at last to claim the sunlight.

Climbing is about two things: skill and trust. Skill can be taught, but you've got to have trust to get anywhere. I promise I won't let you fall.

book ends with the protagonist having the same problem

Jesse swallowed and looked around the field. Roe could see him struggling with his thoughts, trying to put them in a coherent order. "It takes me a long time to learn things," he told Roe finally. "When I learn 'em, I try to hold on real tight. It's kindy scary for me to try to unlearn 'em.

Most of us fear that in growing old, we'll become a shell of ourselves. But, of course, it's the youthful versions of ourselves that are our shells; we must leave them behind like a snakeskin. We must grow out of ourselves to grow beyond our old limits, or else risk being suffocated by the sediment of our own history.

The day you turn thirty is a big deal; it's when you're really starting to come into your own. If you were a rose, you would be just starting to open up and show all your layers of petals.

The world, whose nature is to become other, is committed to becoming, has exposed itself to becoming; it relishes only becoming, yet what it relishes brings fear, and what it fears is pain.10

History, largely experienced previously as a series of natural disasters, could now be seen as a movement in which everyone could potentially enlist.

Today, the belief in progress, necessary for life in a Godless universe, can no longer be sustained, except, perhaps, in the Silicon Valley mansions of baby-faced millennials.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.