Quotes About Progress

if you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.

Introducing change is like pulling off a bandage : the pain is a memory as soon as you feel it.

The certainty's is gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.

The certainty's gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.

There is one possibility left,' he wrote on Christmas Day 1913, 40 years ahead of his time, 'an industrial customs union, of which sooner or later, for better or worse, the states of Western Europe would become members… Fuse the industries of Europe into one … and political interests will fuse too.' (2)

People Like Us Taking Over

no response after six to eight treatments, the course should usually be abandoned,

usually little response until two or three treatments

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Bloomberg predicts that wind energy will be the lowest-cost energy globally by 2030.

Santos-Dumont did not believe in patents. He made the blueprints of his airships freely available to anyone who wanted them. He saw the flying machine as a chariot of peace, bringing estranged cultures in contact with one another so that they could get to know one another as people, thereby reducing the potential for hostilities.

Change is hard. That's why propelling away from discomfort is easier than moving toward a fantasy goal.

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder...

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Never reward writing with not writing. Rewarding writing by abandoning your schedule is like rewarding yourself for quitting smoking by having a cigarette.

se había transformado en algo que era más, y a la vez, menos que humano

The amount of footprints underneath indicates how far they are too, and the closer you get to the Pokémon, the number of footprints will go down.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.