Quotes About Progress

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

Ma cos'è mai la storia, diceva spesso don Ferrante, senza la politica? Una guida che cammina, cammina, con nessuno dietro che impari la strada, e per conseguenza butta via i suoi passi; come la politica senza la storia è uno che cammina senza guida.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

humans can build as easily as destroy,

But no one was indispensable. These guys, they lost a step and the game moved past them. The teams were eternal, but the players came and went. One

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.

you learn more from defeats than you do from victories

Losing is a powerful management tool so long as it does not become a habit.

Young people will always manage to achieve the impossible–whether that is on the football field or inside a company or other big organisation. If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow.

The most important aspect of our system was training.

No matter how hard we worked to blood youngsters, Barcelona is still able to do this better than any club. The way they develop boys into some of the best players in the world is breathtaking.

Success is often cyclical, with doldrums.

While I took great pleasure and satisfaction in seeing what we had done for others, I cannot say that I felt as happy. I always felt I had to be in the vanguard of tomorrow. I'd immediately start to think about ways in which we could improve, and players who were coming to the end of their best days.

Si dirigiera un negocio, me encantaría conocer las ideas de sus trabajadores más jóvenes, pues son los que tienen un mayor contacto con la realidad y las perspectivas de futuro.

Los mejores jefes también se enorgullecen de que los empleados que hayan trabajado bien y quieran irse, lo hagan a puestos mejores y más importantes.

When he eventually retires, his organisation will be little different from the one he inherited. It will definitely not have achieved anything remarkable.

Todo eso implica que los equipos de alto nivel están en continuo estado de evolución, y pobre del mánager que crea que algunos jugadores pueden durar para siempre. Mi

when you're managing change, you have to accept the quieter spells and acknowledge that transformations take longer than a year.

There is something wrong with this world." She stood like she was making a speech. "Something very wrong when it's the twenty-first century and this type of elitist travesty is still being perpetuated.

Sometimes, things change so quickly you don't even know how it happened.