Quotes About Progress

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Lincoln embraced the Declaration of Independence before and during the Civil War to justify both prosecuting the war and abolishing slavery, Wilson denounced the same principles and language in the Declaration as nonsense or dismissed them as relevant only to the American Revolution, insisting that to treat them as the Founders intended served as an impediment to communal progress.

Again, for Wilson and the progressives, the American founding was simply a historical event distinct to its own moment and condition. Progress requires that America not get stuck in its own history.

Hence the American heritage and founding principles must be thrust aside if there is to be human progress. They are dismissed as outmoded and obstructive, impeding the pursuit of utopian ends, for they are unconnected to the present. Man,

Social movements thrive on conflict," wrote Piven and Cloward.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Running, in other words, removed an important constraint on our development as a species.

Have the courage to write a lousy first draft.

A writer keeps going despite what awaits the effort, the detours, ruts, curves & unexpected roadblocks. The road is clear. Drive on

A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.

Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a book is built.

As a writer, you have to re-earn your chops with every new book

Every good story challenges the protagonist, and the reader.

Reading is the never-ending apprenticeship for writing ~ Mark Rubinstein

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

Leadership is about movement and growth.

Gandhi believed that the means of struggle a people used would shape the society that grew out of the struggle.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

Abraham Lincoln, a predecessor of Barack Obama in both the White House and the Illinois state legislature, had eighteen months of formal education and became a soldier, surveyor, postmaster, rail-splitter, tavern keeper, and self-taught prairie lawyer. Obama went to Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, and became a "community organizer." I'm not sure that's progress--and it's certainly not "sustainable.

The future is always beginning now.

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time Is becoming the architecture of the next time.

Life should be more Than the body's weight working itself from room to room.

The Hill I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, the farther I am from everything. One foot in front of the other. The hours pass. One foot in front of the other. The years pass. The colors of arrival fade. That is the way I do it.