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Quotes About Progress

Step One is, paradoxically, both a crushing end and a beginning.
~ Marya Hornbacher
There is no right," she says. "There's the best you can do. And that's fine. That's normal.
~ Marya Hornbacher
It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.
~ Marya Hornbacher
So let God know what you're doing just by doing it or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.
~ Unknown
I'm really proud of you for having come this far every single one of you, wherever you are, you're on your way you are getting there! And don't worry so much! Just that's what we need to stop doing stop worrying so much, and start observing a little bit more.
~ Unknown
Marybeth Gasman
~ Unknown
We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.
~ Unknown
If both of your shoes are shined, then your best foot will always be forward.
~ Unknown
Maryrose Wood
~ Unknown
The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need.
~ Masaaki Imai
When you solve one problem, you will see ten more.
~ Masaaki Imai
Kaizen is everyday improvement, everybody improvement, everywhere improvement.
~ Masaaki Imai
The principle is not that you change when your surroundings change, but that your surroundings change when you change.
~ Masami Saionji
Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
~ Masamune Shirow
The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something. Originally there was no reason to progress, and nothing that had to be done. We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a "movement" not to bring anything about.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
~ Mason Cooley
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
~ Mason Cooley
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
~ Mason Cooley
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
~ Mason Cooley
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.
~ Mason Cooley
Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Now here are three stages of wisdom: the unwise person blames other people for what are, in the end, her own judgments about things; the person who is making progress does not blame others, but only herself; the wise person does not blame even herself.
~ Massimo Pigliucci