Quotes About Progress

We are like blocks of stone … blows of His chisel which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

You've got to kill your darlings.

Man cannot discover new oceans (high sea) unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.'

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false, dangerous.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love.

I believe that those in the city must be left to work out their own destiny," the hist-techneer said at last. "In a manner of thinking that choice is now a retreat. They wish life to remain as it always has been. But that is just what life never does. It goes up—one advances—or it goes down—one retreats. And if one tried to stand still—that is retreat.

To learn you must first fail

Magari uno rimpiange di aver perso qualcosa, e l'ha perso solo per trovare qualcosa di meglio.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin

A tree 'fires' its leaves every autumn, and a mother bird 'fires' its babies from the nest in spring, right? Be alert to the need to call an end to a relationship within your business, and if it's your turn to fire, do it swiftly.

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer.

Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Die Ära der Nationen ist vorbei. Eine Zeit lang werden die Menschen noch daran festhalten, wie an Großmutters Teeservice, das man nie benutzt, weil es nicht spülmaschinenfest ist, aber eine der nächsten Generationen wird nicht mehr verstehen, wozu eine Nation gut sein soll.«

Because he knew money was power. And because he, however he came upon the idea, knew that there would have to be someone to make a change in the distant future.

Or is there another phase, beyond peaceful protest?

If we cannot even get rid of the most preposterously unnecessary emissions, how are we going to begin moving towards zero?

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.