Quotes About Progress

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Everybody knows that once you past it, you can't go back.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

One day he finally got a math concept (converting between hours and fractions of hours, as I remember) he'd been struggling and struggling with, so I praised him up and down, and told him it was a good day, a day to remember.   "It was just one minute," he said. "What's the rest of the day gonna do for me?"   "Sometimes you only get one good minute a day," I said. "You just have to make the most of it.

if you trust in the process, forget about all the bells and whistles and just put in the work, disparate things can eventually come together and become something far greater than the sum of their parts.

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.

Are you a degenerate, Fisher?" "I'm working on it.

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

At first, I struggled with some of the bigger words, but Kinsella kept his fingernail under each, patiently, until I guessed it or half-guessed it and then I did this by myself until I no longer needed to guess, and read on. It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.

The years don't slow down any as they pass.

It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.

Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down. <...> If you want to get on in life there's things in life you have to ignore so that you can keep on.

As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

Present sensitization remains to be cured, whatever the original cause.

To change yourself means to change the future.

Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)

Intellectual achievement is useless without social development.

Why even ask the question? Growth is "natural," a child "develops," its potentialities "unfold." The words themselves, in their root meanings, proclaim inevitability.

Still, smiles followed tears; they kept working and Jessy kept trying, and together they moved forward.

She had achieved what might be called a fourth-grade competence, and we didn't want her to lose it, as she certainly would if it wasn't exercised.