Quotes About Progress

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you're dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day.

Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good.

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.