Quotes About Progress

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.

These ruins are to the future what the past is to us

This life is not the same as your other life.

The worst is over, the worst is yet to come

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Again time elapsed.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

BACK IN THE Pleistocene era when I went to vet school, female students were a rarity and not a blessed one.

fine enough, but getting there is no pleasure." She stood with her hands

You may know that a cascade of water can wear away stone, but you can't predict what shape the rock will take at any given moment.

Letting ourselves be where we are leads us someplace new. Keeping ourselves locked where we wish we were, leads to stagnation.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

I've got to learn something from my mistakes instead of establishing a new record to break.

I not only feel better about myself because these people are also fucked up (and I guess this gives us a sense of community), but I feel better because look how much these fellow fuckups managed to accomplish!

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

I make them bald, I turn them gay, my work is done!

I love their being as bound up in their history as they are, preserving their buildings instead of razing them to the ground to make way for another big beige building with lots of windows to throw yourself screaming from.

She liked going to the gym, or rather, she liked having been to the gym, and the only way to have been was to go.

For Billie and Barack, who make my world a better place. Despite the obstacles you've had to overcome--whether posed by my antics or the uber-unfortunate antics of the Tea Partiers and the rest of their distressing ilk--long may you wave.