Quotes About Progress

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

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At a job interview at a university, three men sitting across from me at a table. On my cv it says that I am currently working on a book about the color blue. I have been saying this for years without writing a word. It is, perhaps, my way of making my life feel "in progress" rather than a sleeve of ash falling off a lit cigarette.

Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving.

We may become more used to jumping into flight, but that doesn't mean we have done with all perches.

the history of psychology does not exactly fill me with faith in its teleological progress. p. 204

Really, though, it's more than a perfect match, as that implies a kind of stasis. Whereas we're always moving, shape-shifting. No matter what we do, it always feels dirty without feeling lousy.

Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it.

This is what Lilly loves about London, that every building, street, common and square, has had different uses, that everything was once spomething else, that the present, was once the past ammended

A boy is coming down a flight of stairs.

Gardens don't stand still: they are always in flux.

THAT THE THINGS IN LIFE WHICH DON'T GO TO PLAN ARE USUALLY MORE IMPORTANT, MORE FORMATIVE, IN THE LONG RUN, THAN THE THINSGS THAT DO

She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small.

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Life is long. Things can resume.

You should slow down. Learn to enjoy the journey. You never really get where you're going, anyway.

learning something new, challenging oneself, setting goals and achieving them should be something natural in human life, for it is only through continuous growing that progress happens. Doing the contrary is equal to getting lost. If you stop dreaming, you stop living.

Weak men gain their object when allied with strong associates: the brook reaches the ocean by the river?s aid.

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

We must become the change we want to see.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.