Quotes About Progress

We are in an age of exponentially changing technologies. Ergo, we are in an age of exponentially changing ethics.

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.

Sube o baja según se va o se viene.Para el que va, sube; para el que viene, baja.

Estoy comenzando a pagar. Más vale empezar temprano, para terminar pronto.

entiendo lo lejos que está el Cielo de nosotros; pero conozco cómo acortar las veredas.

Humans aren't meant to look back. Or else we'd be able to turn our heads in a 180, just like an owl.

You can fill a lifetime with if only's or you can get on with it.

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She'd learned a long time ago to look ahead, not back. What's done is done. Make the best of it and move on.

But you can't go back. Not ever. You have to pick up the pieces and keep moving ahead.

Zeros now have a place, and they displace the phallic order of ones.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Each epoch dreams the one to follow.

The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: What next? instead of Why me?

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.

Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, Wait. Not now. Sometimes the step is, Work on something else for a while. When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

when we move out of faith into the act ofJ creation, the universe is able to advance.

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities of life.