Quotes About Progress

No artist is pleased.... there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.

You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps." from Best Friends

Always remember there is more to be lost from standing still than there ever was from risking it all.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

I'd have to leave the armor behind. But maybe I wouldn't need it anymore.

I'm tired of entirely new things," Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

I wouldn't bother searching the small storage spaces until we got down to the looking-for-all-the-body-parts phase.

Hard work really did make you improve; who knew?

Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency.

Now that I knew where we were going, it was a lot easier to get there

The whole thing had seemed to start out well and then devolve into a disaster almost before he noticed. Not that that's unusual. But

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.

Sometimes endings are just opportunities.

Every day is a chance to start over, my friend.

also free from closemindedness, obscurantism and bigotry.

The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples' lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That's what technology is all about.

would have made for a growing excitement.

Error is a hardy plant: it flourisheth in every soil.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.