Quotes About Progress

He was stronger and tougher—and she had to believe, even if it went against every core principle she personally had, that his single-minded, unwavering commitment to himself was going to see him through this better than her compassionate interest in others. Weight carried, whether it was physically, mentally, or emotionally, slowed you down.

That which cannot go on will not.

In order to move forward, you had to let the past go—and sometimes that meant mental shifts that happened on the inside…whereas with others, it was about things in the physical world.

And that's what we're going to teach you how to do." Well, wasn't that a lesson he was goddamn aching to learn. Jim

go, he thought. Shooting across

Verily, time moved forward even if you wanted it to slow to a crawl.

Algunas veces la única manera de saber lo lejos que has llegado es regresar al lugar de donde saliste.

Morning is coming." Just like a freight train.

You've come a long way from being that asshole I once knew and tolerated.

Weight carried, whether it was physically, mentally, or emotionally, slowed you down. And as she kept going

A veces hacer lo correcto era aterrador, pero el corazón la había llevado hasta allí y pensaba seguir adelante con sus planes...

Como tu padre siempre me decía, no mires hacia atrás. Sólo hacia delante.

El destino no era fácil, pero al final ofrecía su recompensa. Con el tiempo, todo lo que pasaba era exactamente lo que debía pasar.

DEDICATED TO YOU: I cannot believe you and I have come so far. Your book is not a goodbye, however-just another beginning. But you're used to that...

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, she added, because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

If the people of Old Earth, our ancestors and their descendants today who remain, could keep building, could keep trying, how can we do less? We are their children, and while we bought to the stars with us all the faults and the problems and the flaws of the past, we also bought the good things, the determination, and the willingness to help others, and the imagination to build things greater then every shortcoming humanity has ever known.

In the month of his inauguration, 63 percent of African Americans held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July 2013, that figure had fallen to 38 percent. Among whites, the proportion had declined from 79 percent to 52 percent. Obama, alas, has failed in the one area in which even the opposition hoped he would succeed: bridging the racial divide.

Life is the great civil rights issue of our day

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

and you should think of time off from running as part of training rather than as a missed training day.

is easier to maintain a level of fitness than it was to achieve that fitness.

The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.

Evolution has one big rule: If there's no pressure on the system to change, then it doesn't bother.

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.