Quotes About Progress

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

Last century's magic is this year's science.

Three years passed. And then there was a sticker.

I guess because, well, just because it was able to evolve. When it couldn't be one thing anymore, it became something else and kept on living that way

When do my stories get to change?

It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.

I walked and I walked, my mind shifting into a primal gear that was void of anything but forward motion, and I walked until walking became unbearable, until I believed I couldn't walk even one more step. And then I ran.

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Transformation isn't a butterfly. It's the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away. It's huddling in the dark cocoon and then pushing your way out. It's the messy work of making sense of your fortunes and misfortunes, desires and doubts, hang-ups and sorrows, actions and accidents, mistakes and successes, so you can go on and become the person you must next become.

I considered my options. There were only two and they were essentially the same. I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

The PCT had gotten easier for me, but that was different from it getting easy.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Allow your acceptance of that to be a transformative experience. You do that by simply looking it square in the face and then moving on. You don't have to move fast or far. You can go just an inch. You can mark your progress breath by breath.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

only when I thought how far I had yet to go that I lost faith that I would get there.

It required me to suffer. It compelled me to reach.

Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.

Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.

a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When I believed that all the things I'd been before had prepared me for this journey. But nothing had or could. Each day on the trail was the only possible preparation for the one that followed. And sometimes even the day before didn't prepare me for what would happen next.

The bull, I acknowledged grimly, could be in either direction, since I hadn't seen where he'd run once I closed my eyes. I could only choose between the bull that would take me back and the bull that would take me forward.

The thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.