Quotes About Progress

Still, as one ponders that progress from open commensality with Jesus to episcopal banquet with Constantine, is it unfair to regret a progress that happened so fast and moved so swiftly, that was accepted so readily and criticized so lightly? Is

I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom Fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes; all times before the law Yoked us, and when, and since, in this I sing. And the great world to his aged evening, From infant morn, through manly noon I draw.

There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was held up on broad arches of rubble. In Constantinople the minarets flame like great candles round the Golden Horn… Steel, glass, tile, concrete will be the materials of the skyscraper. Crammed on the narrow island the millionwindowed buildings will just glittering, pyramid on pyramid like the white cloudhead above a thunderstorm.

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid Art,Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

I told her how I thought you could always revise your life, how you could work and work on it, finesse the details, see if what you're saying is what you wanted to be saying.

Understanding is not about progress; its about process. What we may finally come to understand is that we won't,can't,understand and that incomprehension is essential to our existance. Mystery is our maker.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

Life should be an unfinished business.

Life has a strange way of working itself out

Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Always do whatever's next.

The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.