Quotes About Progress

You're going to have to suffer some discomfort to grow into your new role, alet. You can choose to do so in a way that minimizes that discomfort… or you can in a way that maximizes the growth. But you can't have both.

Uhn, there are so many bad ideas in the world," Vasiht'h muttered, rubbing his face. "Then let us go forth and make those mistakes," Jahir said. "And learn something from them.

If... if there is reincarnation, it's about forward motion. It has to be, or else we would all be forever stuck in the past.

Every story begins with a tremble of anticipation. At the start we may have an idea of our point of arrival, but what lies before us and makes us shudder is the journey, for that is all discovery.

it has to do with whether you think intelligence is fixed (you're born as smart as you'll ever be) or changeable (you can get smarter throughout life). When provided with evidence that the brain can grow new pathways, fixed-orientation freshman college students on the verge of dropping out switched to a growth orientation and graduated.

Behavior we celebrate grows ever stronger.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Lily told her about what had happened so far. (If you're interested, you can go back to the beginning of the book and read all the way through to this point again.)

We thought there was a great distance between the future and us, and now here we are, falling through it.

It's important to see who you're growing into and who you used to be.

Pero siempre hay tiempo de cambiar. Siempre hay tiempo. Hasta que ya no hay.

Gone were the landscape paintings of the past, the pictures of ancient Greek heroes, the portraits of women in their silks and feathers. Painters began to reduce everything to simple squares and circles, the intersection of triangles. They were thrilled by geometry. They talked about achieving weightlessness, of painting pictures that were no longer mired in the world. They wanted to leave the earth behind.

The bus drives up past the old brick factories of Pawtucket and Woonsocket. Finally, in the distance we can see Boston, where slender homes float above the glass towers. I shudder and minutes seem to take forever, and then the bus arrives.

I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

There are still many white mountains to cross, but I am on my way home.

There is always room for improvement; you can make something better and better, but it will never be perfect.

Daylight follows a dark night.

Hope is progress

La vida nos echa toda clase de tierra encima. La solución para salir del pozo está en sacudirnos y dar un paso hacia arriba. Cada uno de nuestros problemas es como un escalón hacia la libertad. Depende sólo de nosotros si lo usamos como tal

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

El hombre no conoce la dignidad de la desesperación definitiva sino es con el indigno motivo de haber de morir; con sus juguetes de la ciencia, del arte, del progreso (la más estúpida de sus ideas), de la reforma social, que le parecen tan graves y que adula y realza utilizando el contraste con la frivolidad de las preocupaciones femeninas puestas en el bello vestir, lo que solamente pide él es no morir nunca. Es un entretenido y un longevista y por lo tanto un ente sin pasión.

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.