Quotes About Progress

The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

No. But why would I go back? I had found a home here, the way everyone has. That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.

Because change begets change.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

to slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed.

In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.

Change is a function of time and experience, and time is implacable.

Divide the infinite future into five-minute blocks, and take them one by one.

We just try to go from day to day. Surprising where you can end up, that way.

The future is happening right here, every day. You can swim or you can drown, but you can't choose not to be in the flood. I suppose the real insight is that it's always been that way.

I know my limits. No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them.

I expect you'll be wading for the rest of your life," Illyan answered seriously. "But every Komarran who follows you will have less crap to deal with, because of you.

From spaceman to caveman in three days," she meditated aloud. "How we imagine our civilization is in ourselves, when it's really in our things.

I do know, dividing our energies among a thousand what-ifs instead of concentrating them for the one sure next-step is a kind of self-sabotage. It's not what we do next week, it's what we do next that counts most.

In fact, since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Prayer, he suspected... was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

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