Quotes About Progress

It isn't falling in that causes you to drown, it's staying in.

What's the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

The Japanese have a nice way of putting it: "The day you cease to travel, you will have arrived.

Let the story do its work in you, and when it is done then you won't need the story anymore.

As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it.

Thus, any change you achieve is inevitably accompanied by inner conflict.

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

The symphony of life moves on but you keep looking back, clinging to a few bars of the melody, blocking your ears to the rest of the music

Do you know what happens, Etienne," says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, "when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?" "You will tell us, I am sure." "It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know what happens then?" Marie-Laure waits. The potatoes steam. Madame Manec says, "The frog cooks.

Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?

A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.

Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding?

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Day after day, the tall Italian said, year after year, time wipes the old books from the world.

Sublimity," Hauptmann says, panting, "you know what that is, Pfennig?" He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling. Never has Werner seen him like this. "It's the instant when one thing is about to become something else. Day to night, caterpillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man.

You know how diamonds—how all crystals—grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too.

to write a story is to inch backward and forward along a series of planks you are cantilevering out into the darkness, plank by plank, inch by inch, and the best you can hope is that each day you find yourself a little bit farther out over the abyss.

Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

It's all right," he told her. "Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

They always seem to be going somewhere and never doubt that it is the right place to be going.

each day working more frenetically than the last, as if against some deadline known only to him.

Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners, the clean efficiency with which they move. They always seem to be going somewhere and never doubt that it is the right place to be going. Something his own country has lacked.

For Winkler each hour was another hour between Cleveland and Anchorage, between who they were becoming and who they had been.