Quotes About Progress

This life of mine has been a little tough to negotiate the past two years. Not that everyone's isn't, after all, it wouldn't be called 'life' if a litte difficulty weren't automatically interferred. 'Super duper journey of progress and inspiration' maybe, but not 'life'.

As painful as some of the past year's changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.

Write down everything that you accomplished today. Instead of a "to do" list, this is a "done" list. Include everything!

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.

Women had made progress - Jo only had to look as far as the television set to see it - but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do it all flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

When your mom and I were your age, there weren't a lot of options for girls. Like, you know how your mother's always telling you that you can be anything you want to be when you grow up? That wasn't what we heard. Men could be doctors or lawyers. We were just supposed to marry them.

Women had made progress—Jo only had to look as far as the television set to see it—but she wondered whether they would ever not try to have it all and do it all and do all of it flawlessly. Would the day ever come when simply doing your best would be enough?

She hoped that things had changed, but she knew that they hadn't changed enough. All the demonstrations, all the consciousness-raising, all the protests, all the pickets, all the books she'd read, all the conversations she'd had, all the ballots she'd cast, all the work and here they were, still.

a concentration of young people who wanted to open their minds

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through.

dass die Erde eher wie eine Müllhalde ist, die verschiedenen Zeiten fallen im Dunkeln, den Mund mit Erde gefüllt, übereinander her, die eine begattet die andre, ohne fruchtbar zu sein, und der Fortschritt besteht immer wieder nur darin, dass die, die auf dieser Erde herumgehen, von alldem nichts wissen.

We are going to have to stop penalising people for making that most human of gestures- mistake

Everything human … has its period: nations, like mortal men, advance only to decline; dismembered empire and diminished glory mark a crisis in the constitution;

It takes some believing, but it was not until 1869 that Emily Davies founded Girton as a Cambridge college for women, and when, in 1896, the university came to vote on whether women should be allowed to face examinations for degrees, The Times printed train timetables, to enable London-based graduates to travel to Cambridge to vote against the proposition. The university did not allow women full membership until 1948.

democratizing energy.

There is a saying in the Middle East that goes something like this: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father drove a car, I travel on a jet, and my grandchild will ride a camel." Not necessarily. The deserts of the Middle East and North Africa have more solar potential per square inch than any other region in the world—more energy potential, in fact, than all of the oil ever extracted from deep beneath its sand dunes. The

stability of the capitalist system is shaken by the alternation of attempts to stop economic progress in order to protect old investments and tremendous collapses when those attempts fail.

I nostri pronipoti troveranno barbara l'usanza di nutrirsi di animali. Nei prossimi anni milioni di persone sceglieranno di mangiare a un gradino più basso della catena alimentare, così da permettere che milioni di altri possano ottenere quanto occorre per sopravvivere. Se ciò succederà, aumenterà il livello di salute globale - nostra, del Sud del mondo, del pianeta.

No wonder these people don't believe in evolution. It obviously hasn't worked in their favor.

Trebuie s? fie un fel de uÈ™urare în faptul de a-È›i fi ajuns scopurile.E ca un soi de sprint în care tocmai forÈ›ezi, dup? care treci linia de sosire È™i-È›i tragi sufletul-ai reuÈ™it!De fapt, niciodat? nu reuÈ™eÈ™ti-întotdeauna trebuie s-o iei de la cap?t.

We worked steadily for five-and-twenty minutes, and did four potatoes.

Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in front, not behind us; and Forward! is our motto.

partimmo a un'andatura che avrebbe fatto onore al più veloce degli schiacciasassi mai costruito