Quotes About Progress

infinite possibilities are available if you follow a pertinent sequence of creative action.

look at what's deficient and be an instrument of increasing

all of life is a movement toward perfection

Abandon outmoded familial and cultural customs.

You can be motivated out of a desire to grow rather than a need to repair your deficiencies. If you recognize that you can always grow, improve, become more and greater, that is enough.

Creation takes place on its own timetable.

You don't learn much from a victory except to stay the same.

Mentally make an effort to assess every step you're taking in all aspects of your life—including in your career, your relationships, and your health—in terms of directionality. That is, ask yourself, In which way am I truly moving? Am I getting away from my originating place, or am I returning to it?

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Keep in mind that when you've reached the valley floor, the only direction you can go is upward.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

By the end of that first day, what I'd made was a big mess. But if chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, that I was well on my way.

I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.

if we walk far but are angry as we journey, we travel nowhere. If we hold grudges as we scale mountains, our view remains the same.

Thank you for helping me turn the page.

chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

You don't have to be an immediate expert at everything, Juli. The idea here is to learn something new.

CHAPTER 12 Mom and Dad Boot Up

chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.