Quotes About Progress

Ask yourself, how much of your time do you spend developing someone else's product? How much developing yourself?

You don't have to make every module perfect before you check it in. You simply have to make it a little bit better than when you checked it out.

Fixing bugs is not making progress. You aren't paid to debug. Debugging is waste.

A skilled surgeon knows that cuts have to be made in order to operate, but the skilled surgeon also knows that the cuts are temporary and will heal. The end result of the operation is worth the initial pain, and the patient should heal to a better state than they were in before the surgery.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university

Whichever way you look there is a din of tumult; Whichever way you go there are flames and torches; For tonight this world is heavy with labour pain; To give birth to a world which will forever remain.)

She was re-creating herself, shedding one skin for another.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.

For almost seven weeks, the ships of the fleet sailed their leisurely way across the Atlantic. Since the ships' captains wanted to stay in contact, the fleet could sail no faster than its slowest vessel. That meant even the larger, faster vessels only made about five or six knots under ideal circumstances.

That's not a goal," Kit said. "Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones?

Myth and mysticism have been replaced in the world by social media."

Beginning writers tend to think that craft is their enemy. As long as they believe that, they will remain beginners, no matter how many years they write.

Though now that I think about it, the workshop that day was probably focused on revision, as in Your First Draft Sucks and You Have a Thousand Do-Overs Before You Get It Right. Think of it this way: Build a city, then blow it up to save it. Invent a road to take you far out of town, then start over with one good brick.

The artists who copied Rembrandt did so to learn about painting, not to be lesser versions of the master. They imitated as a way of looking closely, and then used what they had learned to develop their own work, brushstroke by brushstroke. Line by line, you can do the same.

You have the ability to make small, intentional choices that lead to big change!

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

To me, socialism was just common sense.

Ours was a city on fire with becoming, the suburbs reaching farther from the core by the week.

Either things grow and change or they die.

What would happen, they conjectured, if they simply went on assuming their children would do everything. Perhaps not quickly. Perhaps not by the book. But what if they simply erased those growth and development charts, with their precise, constricting points and curves? What if they kept their expectations but erased the time line? What harm could it do? Why not try?

when we were walking through Angkor War, I found myself wondering about what is lost when one culture is systematically annihilated so another can thrive in the name of progress. Think about it, what might have happened if Cambodia hadn't eventually been taken over by Siam and then France - what the Cambodians could offer the world if they're given the opportunity to follow through with what they're meant to become.