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Quotes About Progress

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
~ Lillian Hellman
It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.
~ Liu Dan
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
~ Lloyd Alexander
It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
~ Loren Eiseley
AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.
~ Luc Montagnier
History is the daughter of time.
~ Lucien Febvre
Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.
~ Luis von Ahn
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
~ Lynn Johnston
I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
~ Macklemore
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
~ Marc Andreessen
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.
~ Marcel Proust
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.
~ Mark Twain
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Every time you respond in a certain fashion, it gets easier and easier to respond.
~ Marshall Sylver
Don't worry that you've wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.
~ Martha Beck
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
~ Mary Engelbreit
You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
~ Mary Kay Ash
We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.
~ Meryl Streep
It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.
~ Michael Cera
We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.
~ Michelle Sagara
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
I believe in having a vision for the future but living each day at a time.
~ Miranda Kerr