Quotes About Progress

Garret went across the street to the library. There was a hole in the sidewalk the size of a bathtub. Construction was being done, was always being done. It was the journey that mattered, Garret thought woozily, the getting-there part. The mayor, and then the president, had begun saying that. "And where are we going?" the mayor had asked. "When will we get there? What will happen to us once we get there?" He really wanted to know.

and sleepily thought of how technology was no longer the source of wonderment and possibility it had been...

There goes that schema again!"—we can take steps to change what happens next.

When therapy was successful, two kinds of changes showed up in person after person: the schemas' grip on their lives loosened, and the script changed for the better its typical outcome.

Change is ceaseless.

one focus for healing is to challenge your fears and, to the extent that they have held you back, gain more freedom in your activities.

my choices still follow me. They are a part of me.' 'Only if you let them be. Yes, choices define your life, Soph, but you make new ones every single day. Life is a work in progress, and how we define it changes as we change, as our choices change.

America's infinitely ramified rail network, whose veins and capillaries once reached into every small town in the nation, has shrunk to 100,000 miles, the same level as in 1881.

The twentieth century was a horrible detour in the evolution of the human habitat. We were building more for cars' mobility than children's happiness. —Enrique Peñalosa, 2008

Treat the job as an apprenticeship

Nothing is ever final" is a lesson in humility; "no final judgment should be passed" is a promise of hope. The

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

On marche très vite alors qu'on voudrait que le chemin n'eût jamais de fin. Et le chemin a pris fin.

in a place like China. People rush ahead of you; they have no time to look back.

Change did not always lead to improvements, sometimes only to change.

Even today, the politics of religion does not allow the subcontinent to become civilized and its people to become truly educated.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing. —HENRY MILLER

Ours was a love story, the kind that's not supposed to happen to black girls anymore. This was vintage romance made scarce after Dr. King, along with Negro-owned dress shops, drugstores, and cafeterias.

After a year, I was ready to get this show on the road, creating a new generation with an updated set of rules and regulations

Before we were living that Huxtable life. But now where are we? I know where you are and I know where I am, but where are WE?

No book before its time.

Our past is never past & there is no such thing as moving on...

Our daughter needs to know things, she needs to know how fortunate she is. When I was her age . . .' My mother cut him off. 'Stop it, Franklin. This is how progress works. You have it better than your daddy and I have it better than mine.