Quotes About Progress

Reset the board and keep playing.

I'm not ready. But I begin.

It takes a while. Slowly, almost imperceptibly over

The trick to doing the impossible, I've found, is to simply never think past what is at your fingertips. Do the thing in front of you. Then the next. Then the next. In such ways have men built the pyramids, or climbed mountains, or raced to the moon on rockets.

Life is a work is progress.

The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.

the responsibility of science, and the limits of technological progress.

For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time. The rapidity of change and the speed with which new situations are created follow the impetuous and heedless pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

I don't think it's a matter of ready-I mean, not in an all-the-way sense. You're never completely ready-you just get to the point where you're ready enough.

I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning.

I have to figure, with this many stops and starts, surely this train will pull out of the station eventually. What's the big fucking rush?

So even though it doesn't seem like anything's changed—" "—things change all the time, mostly in little ways. That's how it goes, I guess.

Even the hard years have some reason for celebration.

Grandpa has presided over the neighborhood as it went from low-income haven for immigrant families to yuppie enclave.

you mourn, you hurt and you start to heal.

Yet we lift our feet. We lift our feet.

It's good to be reminded that cities and states, courts and armies, writing and figuring, temples and cathedrals, all depended on those who stood to pound and knelt to grind.

If our vision of the way to have better food is to have less processing, more natural food, more home cooking, and more local food, we will cut ourselves off from the most likely hope for better food in the future.

Those who celebrate failure will not be around to help today's students celebrate their jobs flipping burgers...Someone has to tell children if they are behind, and lay out a plan of attack to help them catch up.

Tout grandit, m'a-t-il dit un jour, sauf les catastrophes. Elles sont énormes quand elles naissent; ensuite, elles rapetissent un peu plus chaque jour.

The only way back is the way forward.