Quotes About Progress

The pain we feel in life always grows. When we're little, little pains hurt us. When we get bigger, we learn to handle more and more pain and carry on regardless.

I moved my feet in a vague shuffle, and remembered somewhere that when you walked, you moved them alternately. This improved our progress considerably.

Nothing you ever do can change the past. Can't live your life looking backwards or you'll spend it walking in circles.

The only thing certain in life is change.

The reward for work well-done is more work.

I try to make thinking an ongoing process.

Do you feel you should walk the same path because so many have walked it before you came

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

Eventually, it's better to go forward into it and have things settled than to huddle in terror for one second longer.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are," I said. "Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

It was always easier to demolish something than to create it.

concentrate on what you will do, not what you should have done.

Stop learning, start dying

I hear that they make disinfectants that don't hurt these days. But Charity used iodine.

make the mistakes of youth is no crime, but not to learn from them is.

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next.

Sunset Point was one of those boils festering on the face of the planet: a subdivision.

A lot can change in a year.

Arrogance," I said. "I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn.

that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.

And sometimes you are what's coming around.

From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.