Quotes About Progress

When every action and thought is geared to the building of a new society, there is little room left for feelings.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

No matter how deep we have gone, there is more.

In parks, when people veer from the established paths and cut new ones through the grass, these are called "desire lines." Many people have the same desire when it comes to walking, which implies that we all want to get to the same place, and more quickly.

We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

I used to be as scared of public speaking as I was of sharks. Every time I teach I get an endorphin high off the fact that I did not have a panic attack. I teach and swim in order to measure my improvement as a human. I am no longer terrified of quite so many things.

I reread books to measure my degree of difference from myself.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.

One cannot reach the fifth storey of the Potala without starting at the ground floor.

whether we gays live in Vienna or anywhere else, we can live as decent a life as we want, but the contempt of our fellow humans, and social discrimination, is the same as it was thirty or fifty years ago. The progress of humanity has passed us by.

When one cannot think of how to do things better one simply makes things bigger. The construction of the great pyramids in Egypt marked the end of the Old Kingdom. Bigger and bigger cathedrals and temples were built when the faithful became secure and comfortable. Dinosaurs, too, were an evolutionary dead end: the huge reptiles were replaced by small, energy-efficient mammals.

Good thing life's a journey, even if you have to backtrack to find your way.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Health and education are always issues.

There is an obvious difference between someone who works within the technical limitations of his time which are beyond his control and someone who accepts without thinking limitations which are entirely within his own power to set aside.

Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure; all take their turns of retardation….Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance, said Sib, was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualities.

that omelettes couldn't be made without breaking eggs. Sacrifice

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

The beginner will cling and cling to her thin first draft. She clings to the coast and will strike out into the ocean only under extreme duress

an image of the city, becoming fixed upon it as a threat and above all as a source of destabilization.

coming to terms with the city" –

memory movement of the 1990s.

crossing the lines, which is probably as good a definition of how social change happens as one can find.2