Quotes About Progress

the discovery of speed.

come face to face with this reminder of what we all know and feel uncomfortable knowing: that life plugs along, no matter what happens to any of us. It puts one foot in front of the other, whistling a tune that is dreary or merry by turn, but it always puts one foot in front of the other and moves on.

And today, to the best of his knowledge, no one spoke against it, either, but today the silence was based on the belief that slavery had ceased to exist.

Still recovering from the idea that there existed people who sent money through the post, Brunetti asked, 'Anyone else?

veryone is capable of learning; the trick is knowing what you need to learn.

Matters progressed.

Running might take her forward, it could even take her home; but it couldn't take her back—not ten minutes, ten hours, not ten years or days.

our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?

View the problem as an opportunity to grow.

As we learn from our yesterday our today gets clearer. Breathe and go forward

I wish I was like that. More carefree." "Anyone can be. People aren't carved out of marble. We're all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

Your species. You have a terrific capacity for effing things up. For hurting one another. For making the world a worse place. But then you invent something like ice cream. That makes up for a lot. Makes you worth rooting for.

People aren't carved out of marble. We're all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.

I wonder if Alexander Graham Bell knew, back when he invented the telephone, how much control his device would have over the lives of so many people." Bloody Mary (2005/2006) ...if he only knew, 12 years later

In 1992, the internet carried 100 gigabytes of data per day. By 2007, when the iPhone was released, it carried 2,000 gigabytes per second. Today, it's moving beyond 150,000 gigabytes per second.

You don't know how many years it took to tone it down to that.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts. Every day you are either getting nearer to God, or further off.

Growth in grace is the best evidence of spiritual health and prosperity. In a child or a flower or a tree, we are all aware that when there is no growth, there is something wrong. Healthy life in an animal or plant will always show itself by progress and increase. It is the same with our souls. If they are progressing and doing well, they will grow.

In walking with God, a man will go just as far as he believes, and no further.

Would you be holy? Would you become a new creature? Then you must begin with Christ. You will do nothing at all and make no progress till you feel your sin and weakness, and flee to Him. He is the root and beginning of all holiness, and the way to be holy is to come to Him by faith and be joined to Him.

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.

there have been credible reports that researchers have already developed a self-aware computer in secrecy.