Quotes About Advancement

Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions and improvements and unimportant notions each generation, each year. In 600BC somebody did something that makes your life easier today; in 1217, 1892.

A person can only move forward, she thinks. A person should only move forward.

American technology was now driving military strategy, rather than the other way around.

Rejection of the racial equality clause was a particularly bitter grievance for members of the newly formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and their spokesman, W. E. B. Du Bois.)

This posed a dilemma, which Bill Knudsen summed up simply and succinctly. "Progress is only made when fear is overcome by curiosity," he said.

A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Mijn stelling is dat alle vooruitgang voortkomt uit beperking.

One must be absolutely modern.

The world progresses! Why shouldn't it turn as well?

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Houve um tempo em que havia homens livres. Havia desertos, estepes, bosques, campos, lugares onde o ser humano podia ser dono de si mesmo. Hoje, a televisão por satélite, o telemóvel, as telecomunicações, a Internet, mataram o homem livre. -- Entrevista ao Expresso, publicada em 29/01/2021 na Edição nº 2518 da Revista

la Constitución de 1978, consensuada por todas —subrayo el todas— las fuerzas políticas y redactada por notables personalidades de todos los registros, había definido la España del futuro con nacionalidades y regiones autónomas, a punto de caramelo para diecisiete autonomías de las más avanzadas de Europa

Experience brings best

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

Libraries are not made; they grow.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

By learning man ascendeth to the heavens and their motions, where in body he cannot come.

Persons of noble blood, are less envied in their rising. For it seemeth but right done to their birth. Besides, there seemeth not much added to their fortune; and envy is as the sunbeams, that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. And for the same reason, those that are advanced by degrees, are less envied than those that are advanced suddenly and per saltum.

Depending on the level you're at in your company, the higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.