Quotes About Progress

People are more influenced by the direction of things than the current state.

The secret to thwarting couch lock of any sort is to stop imagining everything you need to do, and start imagining the smallest step that you can do without much real effort.

Never be yourself if you can make yourself into something better through your conscious actions. You are what you do.

Losers have goals, winners have systems

To change yourself, part of the solution might involve spending more time with the people who represent the change you seek.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit." – M. Scott Peck

Just try to keep up.

Science is where the truth is in our world,' she said that night in the office. 'What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science.

Wherever you set foot—on a street in Manhattan as you dodge traffic; on the soft, freshly turned earth of a Hudson Valley farm; on the kelpy tide line below a Maine cottage; or in the pine woods and palmetto thickets of the Carolina Low Country—do not forget that this was once frontier.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

It's exciting. But you can't keep fighting the way things are forever.

Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.

Was Du in Dir nährst, das wächst.

But when, in spite of weakness and disappointments, we set to work in earnest, and persevere steadily, we often find, that, though obliged continually to tack, we make more way than others who have the assistance of wind and tide; and, in truth, there can be no greater satisfaction than to keep pace with others or outstrip them in the race.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

Einer neuen Wahrheit ist nichts schädlicher, als ein alter Irrtum.

Abandoning the flatland ages past, And finding mountains much more to their taste, They toil in labyrinthine caverns, dense With gases that are metal's noble source; 10770 They separate, combine, test, trying to Discover things undreamt of hitherto. By spirit power, subtly, they construct Forms clear and crystalline, without defect; Then in the crystal's eternal silence peering, Perceive what in the upper world is occurring.

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

Aunque el mosto fermente de manera impredecible, al final tendrá que dar vino.

E?itim göre göre bizler birer hiç olmu?uz.

I use no lengthened invocation: Here rustles one that soon will work my liberation.

what is not started today is never finished tomorrow