Quotes About Progress

comprehend, but also that much of it is obsolete almost as soon as it is published. This is a phenomenon too confusing for most to fully understand. This

Medieval learning was really advanced.

A newt?" "I got better.

The world is too big for us. Too much is going on. Too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in the race in spite of yourself. It is an incessant strain to keep pace, and still you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderness. . . . Everything is high-pressure. Human nature can't endure much more." —Atlantic Journal Editorial, June 16, 1833 The

Recognize that every 'out front' maneuver you make is going to be lonely. If you feel entirely comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd.

faster not because of how powerfully they stroke but because of how slippery they make their bodies.

70 percent of your ability to improve your stroke length coming from eliminating more of the water's drag on your body.

So far on my 30-day diet, I lost 18 days.

I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

No one is unreachable as long as he is teachable.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

And on the good days, when I felt as if I was making progress--I was scared then too.

A friend dropped in on him after a gig and asked what was new. "Nothin' new," he said. "White folks still ahead.

There's only one way to live your life: facing forward.

New and improved

needed to take a step forward.

Time is thy barque, and not thy dwelling-place.

Al comienzo de mi vida espiritual, hacia los trece o catorce años, me preguntaba qué más podría adquirir en lo sucesivo, pues creía que me era imposible comprender mejor la perfección. Pronto reconocí que cuanto más se adelanta en este camino, tanto más lejos del término se cree uno, y por eso ahora me resigno a verme siempre imperfecta y en eso encuentro mi alegría.

Man's only justification for physical existence is to learn; this is his destiny which he cannot avoid under any circumstances.

Each and every generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

The sum of all your mistakes are equal to your success

There's a problem out of every solution and a solution out of every problem