Quotes About Progress

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along.

Our failures or mistakes give us important feedback on what we need to change or concentrate on in the future.

And if you come up from under that water and theres fresh air, just breathe baby, Gods got a blessin to spare. I know the process is so much stress but its the progress that feels the best. I came from the projects straight to success and youre next, just try, they cant steal your pride, its inside. Then find it and keep on grindin cause in every dark cloud theres a silver linin. I know.

Im a boss, your man is just an employee mami. Let me upgrade you.

Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live. Life. Proceed. progress.

And my future will be better than my past.

They dont know where I came from but they know where Im goin.

Im so far ahead, I got to save the last dance.

I told my niggas we would see better yesterday, today is a better day, celebrate.

Im just tryna stay ahead of my shadow.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as they ought to be." ~ Norman Cousins

Hadn't he spoken to the trees? Of course, the entire trailer park and its surroundings might be razed to make way for something even mortal-uglier, the living earth sleeping fitfully under concrete. He might well decide it wasn't worth the effort, or the heartbreak when such careful work was undone.

Concrete arteries brought prosperity, like the historical iron horses galloping from coast to coast over the graves of the indigenous, but they were also digestive pathways, and a whole lot of shit ran off them.

Grazie al prestigio e alla forza che ci dà l'Unione possiamo condurre negoziati più efficaci e far valere la nostra influenza. Possiamo cercare di migliorare la vita dei nostri cittadini e incoraggiare il rispetto dei diritti umani negli altri continenti. Siamo un'esperienza unica nella storia del mondo. Un patto di Stati e di popoli che hanno deciso di proteggere insieme le libertà individuali, e di costruire un benessere comune.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Who are we and where are we going? Why are we, with all our "progress", so limited in understanding & sympathy & the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?

Who are we and were are we going? Why are we, with all our "progress" so limited in understanding and sympathy and the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?

nothing. Some of the women are still wading

And all the while I am aware of a larger despair, as if Helen & I are vessels for the despair of all women and many men too. Who are we and where are we going? Why are we, with all our 'progress,' so limited in understanding & sympathy & the ability to give each other real freedom? Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?