Quotes About Progress

Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

Whether you're an unpublished novelist or a sixteen-time New York Times bestselling author, you can always improve your craft. You can always become a better writer.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.

Like one time I was a fish in Noah's Ark and now I'm in Harry Potter, a big step.

Time didn't pass; it tailgated.

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

Hope doesn't mean anything... Action's the only thing that counts.

I can't go back to being who I used to be!' Hadley looked down at him sympathetically. 'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.

Scientific discoveries usually aren't good or evil just by themselves. Science is neutral. It's what people do with their knowledge that matters.

We haven't changed enough, Natalie said in a small, pained voice. But - we're trying.

One does not fail at a task. One merely does not succeed. And since one is always striving for success, so long as one continues striving, one can never truly fail.

Il difficile non è raggiungere qualcosa, è liberarsi dalla condizione in cui si è.

No se trata de que sea necesario conseguir algo, sino de que es necesario salirse de donde se está

La vie est atroce ; nous savons cela. Mais précisément parce que j'attends peu de choses de la condition humaine, les périodes de bonheur, les progrès partiels, les efforts de recommencement, et de continuité me semblent autant de prodiges qui compensent presque l'immense masse des maux, des échecs, de l'incurie et de l'erreur.

This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think and express themselves with full freedom. As for us, we are perhaps already very far from such times as that.

A few months after the great crisis I had the joy of seeing the line of caravans re-form on the banks of the Orontes; the oases were again the resort of merchants exchanging news in the glow of their evening fires, each morning repacking along with their goods for transportation to lands unknown a certain number of thoughts, words and customs genuinely our own, which little by little would take possession of the globe more securely than can advancing legions.

One of my best days was the one on which I persuaded a group of seamen from the Archipelago to join in a single corporation in order to deal directly with retailers in the towns. I have never felt myself more usefully employed as a ruler.

L'incivilimento dei costumi, il progresso delle idee durante l'ultimo secolo è opera d'una minoranza esigua di spiriti illuminati; la massa resta ignara, feroce quando può, sempre egoista e gretta, e si può scommettere fondatamente che tale resterà sempre.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There's a point to the pain. There's a reason and a direction.

Get over it, and if you can't get over it, get over talking about it.