Quotes About Progress

If what Picasso proposed is true, that the first stroke on the canvas is always a mistake, it is best to get on with the mistake, without delay, earlier rather than later. Write one sentence, make one choice or point at something and say "Yes." And then, as the process unfolds, and as long as I keep at it and stay attentive and resolute, making adjustments to each mistake, things eventually fall into place.

But innovation and invention do not only happen with smart people who have all of the answers. Innovation results from trial and error. The task is to make good mistakes, good errors, in the right direction.

Deep practice is slow, demanding and uncomfortable. To practice deeply is to live deliberately in a space that is uncomfortable but with the encouraging sense that progress can happen.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

But all our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

It is not the burdens and resentments we pick up that keep us derailed, but our continuing to tote them.

I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Russia needs to be creative and to go beyond its reliance on oil and gas revenue.

lectures include a discussion of what has happened to Russian industry over the past twenty-plus years.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 3:13 – 14

forty-plus years did not. She had more

Those who urge us to fight ageing are, in effect, inviting us to stop growing and developing

There is no singular meaning of wife. That is the point. That is its meaning. To see the wife fully through a multi-faceted lens is one of the central challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. To do this, new scripts are required that employ wife as a verb and as a gender-neutral concept. These are essential if we are to create necessary new narratives, new ways of living as women and men together.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

A hundred years for now? All new people.

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.