Quotes About Progress

Give a man five years, and, with unfortunate exceptions of course, he will find his level on the Pacific, and his place, whether high or low, as naturally as a stream of water.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era

I guess people are right when they say that time helps grief. I don't agree that it heals, but maybe it wraps our losses up deeper and deeper inside so we can get on with being alive.

I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Times like this are like muddy water, Rea, you just got to keep moving through it until you get to the other side.

I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.

Well. What can we do, except try to do better?

But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.

One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.

You don't have to be ready. You just have to go.

Doing better next time. That's what life is.

There's no changing yesterday. Only tomorrow.

I always thought of being together as the end of the work. Turns out it's where the work starts.

Heresy and progress often look much alike.

Tomorrow came, and it was much like yesterday. Just more so.

Course. Doing better next time. That's what life is.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

Defeats do men far more good than victories.

But things are always going to be better, or were better long ago. No politician ever got anywhere by telling people things are just right as they are.