Quotes About Progress

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

Even though it is not pictured in the Death card, our snake-wrapped Orphic egg—the latent seed of life that we first saw in the Magus card, whose elements were married in the Lovers, and which then was fertilized by the Hermit—is now entering the last stage of development before hatching into new life.

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

Nothing lasts forever But there is always something.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained in sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.