Quotes About Progress

There is a time limit to how long a spirited young person can be kept in cold storage.

It is sometimes said, either irritably or with a certain satisfaction, that philosophy makes no progress. It is certainly true, and I think this is an abiding and not a regrettable characteristic of the discipline, that philosophy has in a sense to keep trying to return to the beginning: a thing which it is not at all easy to do.

I must proceed to my next mystery and for the moment forget this one completely.

She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.

Good-bye to the past, with its mysteries which would never be fully unfolded.

They haven't been standing still in the past.

The past is gone, it doesn't exist any more.

we have futures. That means we can make things true…

Even Wittgenstein did not think that we would ever reach the moon.

With the gift of faith, we move on.

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.

But I really thought that me and her had something. Then I thought about how a lot of people, black and white don't like the idea of a white geezer and a black bird getting it on. One day it won't matter a fuck, we'll all be coffee-coloured with a tint of yellow. Till then we got a load of grief tae get through.

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

We don't really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.

you were better making history than studying it.

You're nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men's trousers.

La vita si può capire solo riandando indietro, ma devi viverla andando avanti.

Failure kind of comes in all sorts of ways, and teaches you all sorts of things. You learn by failing.

Talent is only a starting point.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Erezia unei genera?ii este ortodoxia genera?iei urm?toare.