Quotes About Progress

It is conceivable that in principle man's motor through-ways resemble the slime trails along which are drawn the gathering mucors that erect the spore palaces, that man's cities are only the ephemeral moment of his spawning--that he must descend upon the orchard of far worlds or die.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.

A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster. And get things fixed, that much quicker.

We appear to be in an up swing trend of artificial intelligence creating artificial experts.

Your mistakes are not learning experiences if you are not learning from them.

Your mistakes aren't learning experiences…if you aren't learning from them.

I'll let you know when we're done.

The past doesn't always have to write the future.

Once that whole valley was sage scrub. Nothing more. Until one little beaver dammed a small stream." Silence. Wind rustles through autumn grasses. "A small act," he says quietly, "that reshaped the future." He looks at Ash. "The past doesn't always have to write the future.

Nothing could hold back time or tide, or weather, or what was going to come out of this now . . .

Death card is a sign that you need to draw a line through the past in order to move forward. It says: Release what no longer serves you.

All we can do is acknowledge our past mistakes and use what we've learned in order to do our best going forward.

Men are the inferior sex. Adam was made first, and the first effort is always the simpler and cruder one, non? With the second, one refines.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

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We all get out of shape once in a while. The trouble starts when we refuse to do anything about it.

Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

Right now it's all about one foot, then the other. That's one thing I tell patients who are in the midst of crippling depression, the kind that makes them think, There's the bathroom. It's about five feet away. I see it, but I can't get there. One foot, then the other.

A supervisor once likened doing psychotherapy to undergoing physical therapy. It can be difficult and cause pain, and your condition can worsen before it improves, but if you go consistently and work hard when you're there, you'll get the kinks out and function so much better.

One foot, then the other. Don't look at all five feet at once. Just take a step. And when you've taken that step, take one more. Eventually you'll make it to the shower. And you'll make it to tomorrow and next year too. One step.

Typically, a patient might have a difficult session about a childhood trauma, then come in the next week and announce that therapy is no longer needed.

The only way out is through." The only way to get to the other side of the tunnel is to go through it, not around it. But I can't even picture the entrance right now.

Our notion of the future can be just as powerful a roadblock to change as our notion of the past.