Quotes About Progress

THE TAHITIANS don't have a word that means "art." The closest expression in their language translates to something like "I'm doing the best I can." Ever since I heard this it has become a kind of mantra to me. I try and apply it to my own work, to my students and anyone who shares his or her work with me. If we live with the idea of perfection, we will never do anything. The notion paralyzes us, but doing the best we can, this is possible. I

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

what should have been their first care—the unity and prosperity of their own nation;

It may seem like writing tests slows down development; in fact, testing does not cost, it pays, both during development and over the system's lifecycle.

The purpose of process standards is to act as a baseline for continuous improvement.

Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be.

He was not analytical enough yet to have discovered that there are certain loves, and certain phases of love, which bring perfect happiness only in their pauses and intervals, as water grows clear when one's progress has ceased to stir it.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn't love it but because it is not afraid of it.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

3. You are not powerless. There is information in this book to help you understand your spirited child. You can read it and use it. You can strengthen skills you already have and learn new ones. You can reduce the hassles and live peacefully with your spirited child—most days. Progress not perfection is our goal.

and feel good about it. "What can you say to your irregular

Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.

The important and only vital question is, how much greater, finer, am I than I was yesterday? Have I fulfilled my possibilities, made the most of my potentialities. What a marvelous world if all would, could hold this attitude toward life.34

These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

Success is measured not in how much we accomplish, but in how much we overcome.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

What a child knows about transformation is very little. What an adult knows, I think, is even less. Because a child at least remembers that transformation is possible.