Quotes About Progress

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

The world is hat we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.

Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?

A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying and liberating to consider this aspect of being a novelist.

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

What matters is the day at hand and what we do with it, one day at a time, some butter-side-down days, some butter-side-up. And what should we do with the day?

I feel like I've been sliding all day.

Ed, once called Aladdin, is the first artificial intelligence I've ever known. Maybe if Harry can kill Hiskott and if then I live long enough to see the world become the total science-fiction theme park it seems to be headed toward, I'll probably know dozens of them one day. Let me tell you, if they're all as nice as Ed has turned out to be, that's okay with me.

I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet.

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out.

Hope lies in action

Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it to immoral ends.

Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.

Two fine men died during the construction of this building.

Repeatedly during her trek from grotto to bungalow

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. —H. G. Wells

anachronistic

until it isn't.

as a junior, he graduates with the senior class