Quotes About Progress

Lo que se enfatiza en todo momento es el olvidar, el borrar, el dejar y el reemplazar.

Los miedos que acuciaban a la gente en otras épocas se diferencian de los nuestros en que, ahora, no existe relación alguna entre aquello que provoca el miedo y lo que hacemos para combatirlo.

La función de la cultura no consiste en satisfacer necesidades existentes sino en crear necesidades nuevas, mientras

Ningún marino de hoy perdería el tiempo reparando la parte que ya no sirve para navegar, sino que más bien la reemplazaría con una pieza de repuesto.

Moderne folkemord, liksom moderne kultur generelt, er gartnerarbeid.

From the start and to this very day, modernity was about forcing nature to serve obediently human needs, ambitions and desires –

Precisar tornar-se o que já se é é a característica da vida moderna.

the megacity that stretched from Newcastle to Wollongong. Ten miles to the south a man-made constellation skimmed rapidly over the sea surface — masthead lights, green starboard light, accommodation and deck lights — the roar of its progress

Progress is a law—and theft too has its creation.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

Ignorance is no obstacle to advancement, matter of fact in some cases it is quite an advantage.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

It is always the Age of Iron, and the Golden Age is always behind us, giving off a luster that illuminates the terminal shabbiness of our present condition.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

Equilibrations If you walk back and forth through a puddle pretty soon you wet the whole driveway but of course dry the puddle up.

To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.

And these have been successfully tested. Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact. Face & Luke

If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.

Good things happen slowly and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today.

THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO HAD ARRIVED AT the Northeast Center angry and belligerent, as inclined to take a swing at you as not. He began showing up in Bill's studio and started to paint. Bill watched him become an artist, and gradually he stopped being at the mercy of his rages. He got well enough to leave the center and move to a group home. This is what he said to Bill before he left: "What is art, anyway, except not pounding on walls.

Good things happen slowly," said a doctor in the ICU months ago, "and bad things happen fast.

Good things happen slowly, said a doctor in the ICU months ago, and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today. Recovery is a long, slow process. There are good days and bad days for both of us.

Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir you're bound to discover things about yourself you didn't realize before, may indeed prefer never to have know, but there you are: progress of some sort.

There is something very wrong with a people who consider that the greatest that would ever be has already been, and that the best they can do is to duplicate the past.