Quotes About Progress

And even if you were a pawn – maybe we all are – then you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

Humans don't learn from history

Stai calmo. Vai avanti. Resta umano. Continua a provarci. Continua a desiderare.

If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward. It's okay It's okay to be broken.

To learn is to live

It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

A collision between an ancient mind and a modern world (evolutionary psychology).

But we must never feel – personally or as a culture – that only one version of the future is inevitable. The future is ours to shape.

Wat tegenwoordig sneller gaat dan vroeger: Berichten. Auto's. Olympische sprinters. Nieuws. Rekensnelheid. Foto's. Geld overboeken. Reizen. Groei van de wereldbevolking. Ontbossing van het Amazonewoud. Navigatie. Technologische vooruitgang. Relaties. Politieke incidenten. Je gedachten.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.

Change doesn't just happen by focusing on the place that you want to escape. It happens by focusing on the place where you want to reach

You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

so every present moment is paying for a future one.

an anchor fixes you in one place. And I am still not fixed. Could I just keep sailing through life for ever feeling like this? A boat has to stop eventually. It has to reach a port, a harbour, a destination, known or unknown. It has to get somewhere, and stop there, or what is the point of the boat?

Life is "understood backward; but it must be lived forward" (Søren Kierkegaard)

Everything changes and nothing changes.

inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon)

remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

I stacked the days up like Jenga blocks, imagining I was making progress, and then—crash—along would come a five-hour panic attack or a day of total apocalyptic darkness, and those Jenga days would topple back down again.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological animal.

Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live

It's not what

You should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.