Quotes About Progress

Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

You could always go back to school," Louise said. "You're never too old to learn." "But there's just so much. Not just this world, but so many others. By the time I got caught up, I would be too old." "To spend the rest of your life learning?" Louise asked, shaking her head in wonderment. "What could be better than that?" Such a twenty-fourth-century attitude, Clare thought.

Sometimes, Thanien, you simply have to stop letting the past define your life and live for the future instead.

The only thing our choices can affect or change is the future. So it seems to me that the future is where our attention can be most usefully directed.

Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live in a place where you don't. Suffering is over-rated, don't pursue it. Ask for help when you need it, don't when you don't, and learn to recognize the difference. Don't confuse movement and progress. Be kind. Be forgiving. Pay attention.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey?

Sometimes, a man must muster all of his courage simply to sit still. How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend? How much?

If you're going to learn, you need to forget what you know.

Losers can only flourish until a dominant species appears

Evolution doesn't really have a destination. It's just dicking around with possibilities.

Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on—to be motivated by—temptation. If progress is a virtue then this is our greatest gift. (For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)

For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)

How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend?

cuanto antes confiesas tus errores, antes puedes irte a cometer más.

Change comes through action. Balthasar once said to me, "There's no such thing as a conservative hero.

You lie, it takes forty years to get to Egypt." "Not anymore, it's closer now.

chaos is the condition between order and disorder, the transition between one system and another.

Change comes through action.

TWENTY-ONE TWENTY-TWO

What if he isn't really the last of his kind, but the first of ours?

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter