Quotes About Progress

People who use a buddy system tend to progress more quickly than those who do not.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

It's hard to modernize a country kept in physical or ideological isolation.

But all Austen's heroines are women who can change over time, to grow into what they're meant to be, and encourage their legion of readers to do the same.

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

In the big scheme of life, who knows how things will turn out? What seems to be a disaster at the time can bring you joy you never dreamed of. What seems like a wrong road could be the right one. There are no right decisions, only decisions that seem to go more smoothly than others. There are no wrong turns, only unexpected potholes in the road. And at the end of the day, all you can do is keep moving forward even when it's only an inch at a time. - Kiki Lowenstein

I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Cultural shifts happen on a different level; they come into view only when we step back enough to see a bigger picture changing over time. A newspaper photograph viewed through a magnifying glass may appear only as tiny dots. When it seems as if our lives and choices are like those dots, it can be difficult to recognize their contribution to a bigger picture of change.

After a while you tame your interior monsters, it's only natural. I don't mean that it ever stops; but it stops mattering.

I often wonder why women have careers,' said Shredded Napkin suddenly, showing his teeth. I don't think he can possibly be saying what I think he's saying. He isn't, of course. Never mind. I'll stand this because Reality is dishing it out and I suppose I ought to learn to adjust to it. Besides, he may be sincere. There is a human being in there. At least he isn't telling me about something he read in the paper on women's liberation and then laughing at it.

Civilization must be preserved,' says he. 'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.

If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and (b) locate it in an area either so badly paid or of such low status that men don't want it

though we all applaud the thought of transformation, most of us don't appreciate the process that gets us there. To be transformed means we have to change, and change too often hurts.

Its been said that worry is like a rocking chair—it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

It's a .38," he said proudly. "I know you're a .22 girl, but it's time for us to take the next step in our relationship.

As tempting as it is to dismiss American slavery in the pre–Civil War decades as an antiquated holdover doomed to extinction, in the early decades of the nineteenth century it was flourishing.7

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

things have to break down for the new thing to come in.

Man is...a thinking erratum, that's what he is. Every season of life is an edition that corrects the one before and which will also be corrected itself until the definitive edition, which the publisher gives to the worms gratis.

MIENTRAS MENOS FALLEMOS MAS GANAREMOS; MIENTRAS MAS NOS PREPAREMOS MAS AVANZAREMOS" Joaquín Rodrigues