Quotes About Progress

That was the attorney. He said the doctors are very pleased with your father's progress and that his behavior has been exemplary-' 'Well, that's stupid.' My reaction was rude and raw. 'Of course he's been a model prisoner, Mom. There aren't any kids to molest in prison.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Usually the hard stuff you're forced to do makes you learn a lot.

Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

The moral of the story isn't don't ever be afraid. Or even don't screw up. It's that screwing up isn't the end of the world.

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there.

Life really does go on. That's what I've learned. It goes.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

Todos temos defeitos, querida. Cada um de nós. E, acredite em mim, todos cometemos erros. (...) Você só precisa dar uma boa olhada em si mesma, mudar o que precisa ser mudado e seguir em frente, querida.

You said you've changed...But I'm just wondering if you really have. If you've, you know, looked inside yourself to figure out what you need to change.

You've been moping around for too long...It's time you grew into your next self.

It wasn't the end of their story. It was the beginning.

It's okay if you're not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you're on the way to being happy

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

All it takes is the right training, and we step out, over the boundaries of our bodies and their limitations.

They designed a new type of ship, the small, maneuverable caravel

The ships were among the most complicated machines of their day

Striving for perfection is a good and worthwhile effort. Expecting to actually attain perfection can kill you.

then, with mounting excitement, recorded that the wide mouth turned into a narrows farther ahead.

who distinguished themselves as scientists, artisans, merchants, scholars