Quotes About Progress

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

I'm afraid we're stuck with Kant and his"crooked timber of humanity, from which no straight thing was ever made." If we're going to build another world, it will be from this crooked timber and no other, so we'd better start learning the necessary carpentry.

I've seen enough change in my lifetime to know that despair is not only self-defeating, it is unrealistic.

It is funny how time goes so slow one day, sometimes for a whole season or a whole year, and then it's like a fast-forward button is pressed, and where did time go? How could you move no closer to the life you dreamed for yourself?

Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255

Old contradictions never die; they just get new outfits.

Enlightened sexism is a response, deliberate or not, to the perceived threat of a new gender regime. It insists that women have made plenty of progress because of feminism — indeed, full equality has allegedly been achieved — so now it's okay, even amusing, to resurrect sexist stereotypes of girls and women.

We are not endeavoring to chain the future, but to free the present. We are not forging fetters for our children, but we are breaking those our fathers made for us. We are the advocates of inquiry, of investigation, and thought. This of itself, is an admission that we are not perfectly satisfied with our conclusions. Philosophy has not the egotism of faith.

THE MIND OF THIS COUNTRY, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." In 1837, Emerson struck that note mainly as a rhetorical device, in a young nation obviously engaged in building up its intellectual capital.

Life is about shifting the balance in favor of change, and try as we might to hold on forever to the best of moments, it's simply impossible.

Finding the pathway that best expresses our true selves is a process that can continue throughout life and needn't be locked into a particular decade.

Limited expectations yield only limited results.

Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.

A pencil is an extension of a finger writing in the sand. But our electronic media are extensions of our brains.

It had been years since anybody had wanted to listen again. The world had moved on. They had not.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

The goal was always to keep ahead of the pain.

Victory lies not only in the end goal but in the steps of faith we take every day toward that goal.

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We're all stuck, a little bit, in the valley between who we want to be and who we are.

In the past few years, the floodgates had opened. Folks had sold their homes in Richardson, Plano, Arlington, Fort Worth, and Dallas, packing up and moving to Plainfield until the population grew at the pace of rabbits on Viagra. The green was slowly swallowed up by concrete, the trees replaced by walls and roofs, glass and steel.

Sooner or later she will learn time changes everything, takes everything: sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can't even see it happening.