Quotes About Progress

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.

The minute you're born, you're getting older.

Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

The Five Mindfulness Trainings are needed because we're not fully enlightened yet. We don't need to practice the five trainings perfectly. If we know we're making steps in the right direction, that's good enough.

If the human species has been able to make any progress, it is because of our heart of love and compassion. We need to learn from compassionate beings how to develop the practice of deep observation for the sake of others. Then others will be able to learn from us the way to live in the present and see the impermanent and selfless nature of all that is. This insight will lighten suffering.

No mud, no lotus.

grows near exponentially.

Time destroys everything we do, whatever it is.

Es gibt ja nur Gescheitertes. In dem wir wenigstens den Willen zum Scheitern haben, kommen wir vorwärts und wir müssen in jeder Sache und in allem und in jedem immer wieder wenigstens den Willen zum Scheitern haben, wenn wir noch schon sehr früh zugrunde gehen wollen, was tatsächlich nicht die Absicht sein kann, mit welcher wir da sind.

We keep silent about what we know, and make good progress, so Roithamer.

After all, there is nothing but failure. If at least we have the will to fail we make progress, and in everything, in each and everything, we must at least have the will to fail unless we wish to perish at a very early stage, which of course cannot be the intention behind our existence.

A degraded habitat will produce degraded humans. If there is to be any true progress, then the entire life community must progress.

a fatal recovery from a promising illness

Mensch, was haben wir die Luft bewegt, schrieb Micha später. Es wäre ewig so weitergegangen. Es war von vorn bis hinten zum Kotzen, aber wir haben uns prächtig amüsiert. Wir waren alle so klug, so belesen, so interessiert, aber unterm Strich war's idiotisch. Wir stürmten in die Zukunft, aber wir waren so was von gestern. Mein Gott, waren wir komisch, und wir haben es nicht einmal gemerkt. Es wäre ewig so weitergegangen, aber es ist was dazwischengekommen.

We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or 'decay.' It expands, it increases. When we feel that it has become stagnant or stale, that usually just means we ourselves are not paying sufficient attention.

More important, we're all capable of growth, development, and change. We can get better, although we sometimes fail to do so. To put this another way, we are all, each and every last one of us, the protagonist of our own story.

Call them the people of the Dark Ages if you will, but do not underestimate the desire of these early medieval men and women for the rule of law.

America's poor are better off than much of the European middle class today, and better off than the American middle class of the 1950s.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley