Quotes About Progress

I couldn't bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on.

I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy.

There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, when you think of how their hairstyles changed and their music changed. Some bands now go seven years without hardly bothering to do anything.

Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century.

He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.

It had only taken me six years to change from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old; surely six years wasn't long enough for a transformation of that magnitude.

Life was about to begin, so Arsenal had to go.

Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.

wished she didn't spend so much time worrying about the end of it all, but she couldn't help it. Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.

music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time.

Women who disapprove of men—and there's plenty to disapprove of—should remember how we started out, and how far we have had to travel. 3.

la música sentimental tiene la especial cualidad de llevarte hacia atrás en el tiempo a la vez que te lleva hacia delante, y por eso te sientes nostálgico y esperanzado a la vez.

She wished she didn't spend so much time worrying about the end of it all, but she couldn't help it. Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice.

Merea bertiga harus kehilangan sesuatu dalam rangka untuk memperoleh hal lainnya.

There were no more hurdles. Now all they had to do was walk, and see how far they could get.

I will lay out a hypothesis – tell a coherent story – that connects energy and evolution.

there isn't a full consensus among experts. But strip away a few more skins from the onion of time and, by 3,400 million years ago

En todas las cosas humanas, cuando se examinan de cerca, se demuestra que no pueden apartarse los obstáculos sin que de ellos surjan otros.

A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn't peace, but freedom.

In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.

How little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.

And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics one should study the masters and not the pupils.