Quotes About Progress

M]aybe we should have talked about this before. Well, we weren't gods, we couldn't go back and talk about it any earlier than now, but we could talk about it now. We go on from where we are.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying." She

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends. I

Do que acontecido, me senti muito livre. Trotei, adiante. Eu ia, à meia-rédea, não me instava, não pensava.

Vecchio è, quel che di già è fuorviato. Il vecchio ha avuto valore quando era nuovo...

A superstição perniciosa generalizada é que é preciso deletar o anterior, para aceitar o novo. Que pobreza, que pobreza, que pobreza, que atraso! Se a memória aceita, se o perfil confere, se a senha foi dada, roda os dois programas ao mesmo tempo, roda os três, roda os vinte, porra!

Ah, como passam as coisas deste mundo, nada do que se contrói é perene, nada do que se faz é bem lembrado além de seu tempinho, nada fica como está, nunca se volta, nunca se volta.

Ah, como passas as coisas deste mundo, nada do que se constrói é perene, nada do que se faz é bem lembrado além de seu tempinho, nada fica como está, nunca se volta, nunca se volta.?

Die Athener haben die Unschuld des Herzens und das köstlichste Gut der Griechen, die innere Zeitlosigkeit, verloren. »Ihre einzige Weisheit ist, jeden Zustand zu überholen und fortzuschreiten«, beschimpft Aristophanes sie, Griechenlands Bernard Shaw. Damit ist das ominöse Wort gefallen für das Narkotikum, an das sich seitdem alle ziellos und ruhelos gewordenen Völker klammern: Fortschritt.

Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress.

I wish for all of you that you remain as unfinished as the shoreline along the beach and that you continue to transcend yourselves again and again.

You must not fret. There is no arriving, ever. It is all a continual becoming.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I'm hoping hard for that.

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

You need a negative charge and a positive one to get something moving. We've got the negative; we're going to find the positive if it kills us.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.

If you stick that anger behind you, one day you're going to turn around and find it's gone.

I watched that plant in the office every day. Watered it; misted it. I loved thinking about it like G.T. said, but part of me was worried the tree surgery wouldn't take. Something would go wrong and then I"d be stuck with a metaphor that couldn't go the distance.

Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite... Soon, maybe.

Empty moving boxes piled in a heap—the cardboard symbols of starting over

Remember, it's not that you fall; it's what you do next that counts.

Before Sonia Sotomayor's appointment, a total of 110 justices had been named to the United States Supreme Court since its 1789 creation. All but 4 of these justices were white men, reflecting the traditional power base of the nation. Beginning with African American Thurgood Marshall in 1967, the groundbreakers navigated the public expectations and internal rituals of a tradition bound institution.