Quotes About Progress

There was no going back...because some roads you just couldn't travel again.

Where is the character coming from? What's motivating the character? What's the central conflict? Who's the antagonist? This is Act One development.

One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.

One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through . . .

More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

Tree-ear has taken his first step toward his dream. Realizing a dream can be very hard, though. Sometimes, a dream can seem so far away, it almost disappears. But maybe if Tree-ear takes it one hill, one valley, one day at a time, just maybe, he'll be able to make his dream come true.

Aprender una lengua extraña: asimilas nociones de gramática, vocabulario básico y un acento espantoso que apenas sirve para que te entiendan. Te esfuerzas durante años y de repente, sin saber por qué, todo fluye, captas cómo funciona...

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FUCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fuck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

Survival isn't a destination. It's a journey. And most of the people I help, they're still getting there.

The gift of gratitude, we say in AA. It took me a long time to find it, and I'm still not the best at remembering it, but every now and then, I almost understand.

You can't change the world, but you can improve a bit of it a little at a time.

Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history

Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.