"Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future."

--

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1906). “The Survival of the Unlike: A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants”

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#Inspiration Quotes #Past Quotes #Progress Quotes

“That's also part of having great editors -- they can sort of be honest with you and say, "I see where you're headed with this, but I don't think it's there yet. Dig deeper, babe, and come back with something more." And that's what you do, you dig waaaaaaaay down and you walk around the block eight million times and then you have it -- shazam! And it all comes together in something soooo much better than you thought you were capable of.”
“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”

Source : "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.
“I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.”
“The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.”
“I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I get back? You know, that's not for me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.”
“A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.”

Source : Dick DeVenzio (2006). “There's Only One Way to Win: Lessons from a Legend: Modern Success Principles from an Old-School Coach”, p.83, BookPros, LLC
“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.”

You may also like:

Andrew Dickson White
Diplomat
Asa Gray
Botanist
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
David J. Skorton
Ezra Cornell
New York State Senator
Frank H. T. Rhodes
Henry David Thoreau
Author
John Dewey
Philosopher
Louis Agassiz
Geologist