Quotes About Progress

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

Love dies only when growth stops.

One faces the future with one's past

Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience." Yul-chun

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

But the railroads are a new force. No hatred is in their history. They heal the wounds of the past, and they reach toward the future.

The way I look at it, impatience may be the enemy of perfection, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

All these hours and chatting and things like that don't make the science better.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

learning how to fail will help us more than anything else in life

you're never going to get your act together, fully, completely.

What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we're stuck.

the same old demons will always come up until finally you have learned your lesson, the lesson they came to teach you.

If we want to learn about our future, we should look at what we're doing now.

there's no end to the number of fresh starts you get. There's no fixed "you" doomed to stay in the same rut forever.

To think that we can finally get it all together is unrealistic.

What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

step into my learning zone. I feel the discomfort and see that I have survived.

You are never going to get it all together, you're never going to get your act together, fully, completely. You're never going to get all the little loose ends tied up.

you begin where you are, you see what a child you are, and you don't criticize that.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.