Quotes About Progress

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Le seul avenir de l'avenir est de devenir un passé. Quand l'avenir se jette sur nous, il a tellement hâte de se changer en passé qu'il ne prend que pour un instant, pour un soupir, pour un clin d'œil, pour un éclair la forme fragile du présent. On pourrait presque soutenir que le temps n'a qu'une idée: sauter l'étape du présent.

Fiindc? era mereu în întârziere, sfâr?ea câteodat? prin a fi în avans.

Dragostei nu-i place trecutul. Dragostea r?stoarn? ?i d? brânci, nu prive?te decât înainte, este inamica tradi?iei.

În lenta curgere a istoriei, cu sinozit??ile, cu ezit?rile, cu mla?tinile sale, cu timpii s?i mor?i, apar dintr-o dat?, ?i adesea în durere ?i sânge, avalan?e de violen?e ?i de relativ? simplicitate.

Mi se p?rea pe atunci c? timpul nu se mai sfâr?ea ?i c? trebuia gr?bit neîncetat spre a l?sa loc viitorului. (...) A? fi vrut acum s?-l las s? se odihneasc? pu?in, s?-l v?d încetidindu-?i pasul (...).

la science d'aujourd'hui détruit l'ignorance d'hier et elle fera figure d'ignorance au regard de la science de demain. Dans le cœur des hommes il y a un élan vers autre chose qu'un savoir qui ne suffira jamais à expliquer un monde dont la clé secrète est ailleurs

Uneori progresul este cel are m?soara decaden?a.

Timpul aducea cu el toate lucrurile care ne distrugeau ?i de care ne temeam: uzura, del?sarea, schimbarea, declinul ?i uitarea.

Development is, ultimately, the progress of human freedom and capability to lead the kind of lives that people have reason to value.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

Eisenhower studied his mistakes. "We are learning something every day, and in general do not make the same mistake twice."9 Ike learned to be tougher with subordinates such as Fredendall. "Officers that fail must be ruthlessly weeded out," Eisenhower wrote his old friend Leonard Gerow. "Considerations of friendship, family, kindness, and nice personality have nothing to do with the problem.… You must be tough.

The United States was a third-rate military power when World War II began. When it ended, America was the most powerful nation in history.

The country needs, the country demands, bold, persistent experimentation. Take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Il faut se moquer, en tout cas se méfier des bâtisseurs d'avenir. Surtout quand pour bâtir l'avenir des hommes à naître, ils ont besoin de faire mourir les hommes vivants. L'homme n'est la matière première que de sa propre vie.

Si on pouvait seulement aller jusqu'au premier peuplier ! Le voilà ; puis le deuxième, le troisième !

A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Kierkegaard said that, and Naomi had always admired the eerie perfection of this simple insight.