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Quotes About Progress

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
~ Norton Juster
You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
~ Norton Juster
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
~ Norton Juster
What kind of a place is Expectations? inquired Milo,unable to see the humor and feeling very doubtful of the little man's sanity. Good question, good question, he exclaimed. Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
~ Norton Juster
I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
~ Norton Juster
Good question, good question," he exclaimed. "Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
~ Norton Juster
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations
~ Norton Juster
You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. - The Mathemagician
~ Norton Juster
The dumbing down of America is proceeding apace.
~ Norton Juster
T)he most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.
~ Norton Juster
Progress has peopled history with the marvels and monsters of technology but it has depopulated the life of man. It has given us more things but not more being.
~ Octavio Paz
I do not know if the story repeats itself: I only know that people change little
~ Octavio Paz
La historia del amor es inseparable de la historia de la libertad de la mujer.
~ Octavio Paz
Lo que mueve a los mundos es la interacción de las diferencias, sus atracciones y rechazos. La vida es pluralidad. La muerte es uniformidad. Al reprimir diferencias y peculiaridades, al eliminar diferentes culturas y civilizaciones el progreso debilita la vida y fortalece la muerte, nos empobrece y mutila. Cada visión del mundo que se extingue, cada cultura que desaparece, disminuye la posibilidad de vida.
~ Octavio Paz
Sanctification includes a growing resemblance to the likeness of christ
~ Octavius Winslow
Kennedy and Johnson had more to offer than bread alone. Initiatives such as the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress were intended to stimulate political as well as economic development.
~ Odd Arne Westad
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
~ Og Mandino
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
~ Og Mandino
The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.
~ Og Mandino
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
~ Og Mandino
Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.
~ Og Mandino
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.
~ Og Mandino
Orang yang selalu menunda-nunda niatnya tidak akan mencapai apa-apa. Bertindak memang ada bahayanya, tetapi bila kita duduk saja menunggu rezeki nomplok, yang akan datang adalah kegagalan. Kesampingkan saja keragu-raguan anda dan maju terus.!
~ Og Mandino
Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.
~ Og Mandino