Quotes About Progress

Every time I go home, I look around, and it feels surreal. Like, I'm not living out of my car anymore, I don't have to ask people for money.

It's been great; the whole experience was surreal to me. To go from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men' was like a dream. I could never have thought when I left 'EastEnders' that I would get this good a gig and so soon.

Its a surreal feeling. You work on something for a long time, for two years, and then the promotion of it all happens very quickly.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

L'ennemi d'hier est l'ami d'aujourd'hui. Il n'y a pas de politique raisonnable sans capacité d'oubli.

I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.

Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

life was a stone cutting and grinding...

He was going somewhere, he knew that. And if it was the wrong direction, sooner or later he'd find it out.

The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.

Things change. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Now for the other life. The one without mistakes. – LOU LIPSITZ

Things change, he says. I don't know how they do. But they do without your realizing it or wanting them to.

Call me Sunset. I'm always moving west.

I never looked back, although I had a good many uneasy periods looking forward. (in The Man With the Golden Typewriter).

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by a unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back, Or you can let it go and move forward

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. For those who live centuries, it's a very important choice.

When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it.

As the saying goes, "If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got." If we're finding it hard to fulfill our needs, there's something within us (most likely a thought process or belief governed by fear) that needs to change so that we can create a different reality.

People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.

What Walter thinks is that people are like rivers. We never stay in the same place but jest keep flowing along, learning new stuff and picking up new experiences and changing all the time. So today's you isn't the same as yesterday's you and won't be the same as tomorrow's you. But Walter also thinks that there's a real perfect you that you're always trying to get to, and the better you are at living your life, the closer you come to it.