Quotes About Progress

Aunque sean dos, el camino es uno sólo.

The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

There is nothing bad in undergoing change—or good in emerging from it.

What stands in the way becomes the way

both thou thyself shalt become a new man, and thou shalt begin a new life.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in a way becomes the way.

what stands in the way is the way

The nature of the universe delights in nothing more, than in altering those things that are, and in making others like unto them. So that we may say, that whatsoever it is, is but as it were the seed of that which shall be.

Is any many so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being?

Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.

You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible.

Y entonces amigo mío? haz lo que exige de ti la naturaleza, manos a la obra mientras haya lugar, y no te preocupes por si te imitan. No sueñes en ver establecida la republica de Platón, antes bien, conténtate con tal que progreses un poco, considerando que no es poco fruto este pequeño resultado

There is a river of creation, and time is a violent stream. As soon as one thing comes into sight, it is swept past and another is carried down: it too will be taken on its way.

The obstacle is the way.

A rock thrown in the air gains nothing by going up and nothing by falling down

the seasons of life

How can we all grow?

But the best managers have the solution: Ask. Ask your employee about her goals: What are you shooting for in your current role? Where do you see your career heading? What personal goals would you feel comfortable sharing with me? How often do you want to meet to talk about your progress?

being born again is not a single intense experience, but a gradual and incremental process. Dying to an old identity and being born into a new identity, dying to an old way of being and living into a new way of being, is a process that continues through a lifetime.

Postmodernity knows that someday the Newtonian worldview will seem as quaint and archaic as the Ptolemaic worldview, a development that has already occurred among theoretical physicists.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

It's much easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. —KURT VONNEGUT JR.

Potential has a shelf life.