Quotes About Progress

It's not yesterday anymore

The change would be very subtle... It might take ten years or so...

Today's syntax is tomorrow's morphology

Our refining is a re-envisioning of not only our current society but also our traditions, remnants of the visions of previous generations.

She looked at him for the longest time, and he sensed she wanted to tell him something, so he kept quiet, giving her ample opportunity. She finally stood on tiptoe and kissed him, high on the cheek, about as far away from his mouth as she could get. But that was okay. She'd kissed him. It was a start. And he'd take it.

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

i have no desire to spend my life dancing backward.

Anybody can be a victim, and anybody can flog themselves. Big fucking deal. But you put one foot on a ladder and climb to the next rung. Then you've done something. Then you've made a difference. And then what happens matters. Otherwise, it's just old news, and nobody wants to hear about it.

if you don't have a destination, you'll never go anywhere.

Será que el tiempo es temperatura?». Si bien había pasado mucho desde entonces, de repente se sintió extrañado al enterarse de que ya se había inventado un reloj que, gracias a las diferencias de temperatura, no se detiene nunca y anda para siempre. Y más raro se sintió al pensar que esa máquina era más sensible que él.

World history is always the story of how "we" got to the here and now, so the shape of the narrative inherently depends on who we mean by "we" and what we mean by "here and now.

The fact is, women's rights are human rights. We must fight for everyone to have access to a level playing field.

The famous speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, included the sentence: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". Today's left-wing, through identity politics, affirmative-action policies, and hiring quotas, has shattered that dream.

If you just do what you're doing, you're going to do what you do. Time to interrupt patterns.

Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

I'm not the type to look back over my shoulder, or at least I try hard not to be. Gone is gone; pretending anything else is a waste of time.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste energy thinking about it. what matters is where you are going.

I'd rather see an apartment block any day, all charged up with people who go out to work every morning and keep this country buzzing and then come home to the nice little places they've earned, than a field doing bugger-all good to anyone except a couple of cows.

I've spent my adult life trying to mend the mistakes I made when I was young, which is what we all do, I suppose—

In traditional science fiction, according to Robert Heinlein, there are three lines of thought that drive writers: "What if—" [What if we built a colony on Mars?] "If only—" [If only we could fix past mistakes by travelling through time.] And "If this goes on—

You don't have to have a lifetime of experience; you don't have to be a natural; you don't have to be a perfect expert. You can be like me, and learn this good stuff as you go along. You can make mistakes and have moments of dark despair and sometimes want to give up. And then you can keep on learning, keep on trying, keep on reaching, and you will find your moments of glad grace and catch a glimpse of those mountain peaks. I

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

It was men like that, she decided, that made her eternally grateful to be a woman! She didn't know why Harlan was so obsessed with discovering primitive man. All he had to do was look about him: In Sophie's estimation, mankind had not progressed very far!