Quotes About Progress

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

We both have a lot of things to work on.

Then when she really thought about it she realized she'd been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but had never really noticed, or had put it down to moods, or marriage, or motherhood. The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.

It is interesting to note how often a technological development—such as Gutenberg's—promotes rather than eliminates that which it is supposed to supersede.

A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Nora remembered drawing in the sand of her future with a stick. What she couldn't recall was when the sand had become cement, the who-I-want-to-be turned for once and for all into who-I-am.

Perhaps instead of scaring ourselves we need to surprise ourselves every day. We are, after all, always a work in progress.

The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product.

When we think of longer life expectancy, we may envision ten years added to our existence later on. But it may also be that we've added time to adolescence, which now stretches past the teen years and into the twenties.

ha! They will get to that place soon enough.

Then when she really thought about it she realized she'd been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but had never really noticed, or had put it down to moods, or marriage, or motherhood. The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product. Now she wasn't sure what that might be

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

If you require perfection, you never will

I should prepare and smooth the path of learning till she could glide along it without the least exertion to herself: which I could not, for nothing can be taught to any purpose without some little exertion on the part of the learner.

You don't know what happiness lies before you yet," said I: "you are now only in the commencement of your journey." "The best of happiness," replied he, "is mine already—the power and the will to be useful.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.

No, I'm not afraid, except when it comes to things about myself, but I'm working on that.

How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.

I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?

Things were different when I was growing up.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I'm finally getting optimistic. Now, at last, things are going well!