Quotes About Progress

And then one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man.

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.

What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next? p 418

if you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward.

whenever people start talking about curing too many things with science, I'm always glad bioethics wasn't

But I do know that my own shittiest days were usually followed by better ones.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

The more you get past pain, the more it gets from coal to diamond.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

In every fairy tale, the only way out is to keep running forward. To never look back.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

When you don't keep looking back its that much easier not to trip and fall.

Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

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Wars in the past often accelerated social reform, provided technological benefits, even sparked artistic activity. This one, however, seemed tailor-made to provide none of these positive by-products.

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The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

Study the lives of highly successful people from any corner of life, across history, in any environment, and you will discover they share one trait: They keep moving forward. Sometimes slowly. Often with great difficulty. Frequently after painful mistakes, defeats, or failures. Success is less about talent and opportunities, and more about commitment and motivation.

Wherever you are — it's too early to draw a conclusion. You may be down, but you're not done. Today's defeat could be tomorrow's gold.

Yeah, things are better for blacks and women and gays, but it was the blacks and women and gays that did it, not fuck-ups like this bunch. Whites and straights came along to give help, all right, after the blacks said 'enough' and got their heads busted, and it's the same for the gays and the women. The whites and straights, they control things, and they could have changed it anytime.

Progress always comes at a cost, but if we fear the unknown, we will never get anywhere. Nothing in life is risk-free.

Remember, however, that your willingness to change and your success is proportional to the knowledge you obtain. This

Old habits die hard; most Americans still cling to what they were taught as children.