Quotes About Progress

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

Mindfullness is an invention by the modern world.

They would rise and fall and, in their falling, rise again.

A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly.

Nothing remains the same. Everything moves on in the end. Even us. Death is nothing more than another change.

Orang bergerak menyusuri waktu yang diciptakannya sendiri agar merasa bisa beranjak dari satu tempat ke tempat lain. Bahkan meskipun diam saja di tempat yang sama, orang bisa merasa bergeser ke tempat lain karena waktu membawanya ke sana.

a system is working when an attempt to transform that system is blocked.

Over time she had come to understand that her fear prevented nothing, achieved nothing useful.

Young people today (finally, I'm old enough to use that cliché) seem to have no real conception of how bad things were for women and, more important, could be again.

Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger

Everything was something else before and will be something else after.

Gray had not gotten better.

makes a definite break in the continuum and emphasizes that one phase is ending and another beginning. I

The obstacle is the path.

We have not meet our destination till we are there for sure.

Aria Crosses Over

We all have incidents in our past we're not proud of, and the goal is to learn from them and become better people.

People didn't like thinking outside the box, apparently. Though to be fair, it was a box that had changed her family's life for the better.

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.

The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from 1956.

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.