Quotes About Progress

Transformation does not happen by learning new information. It happens with the formation of new thinking patterns and new behavioral habits.

Something new will come from Satan. Perhaps it already has.

count to forty.

we'll take it step by step. Don't worry about what tomorrow will bring. With God's guidance, tomorrow will take care of itself.

All that heartbreak? It got us here.

The hours passed as they did the rest of the year, until whatever it was we were waiting for commenced.

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.

he's infuriated that his e-reader allows him to only know the percentage of a book he's read, not the number of pages. This, he thinks, is 92 percent stupid.

At the podium Faith said, "Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but...' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.

And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there.

Your twenties were a time when you still felt young, but the groundwork was being laid in a serious way, crisscrossing beneath the surface. It was being laid even while you slept. What you did, where you lived, who you loved, all of it was like pieces of track being put down in the middle of the night by stealth workers.

if you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn't do it any longer.

Everything you do, it'll all feel really slow for a long time. But looking back, much later, it will have seemed like it was fast.

Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but . . .' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.

Or maybe they don't even want babies, some of these women, and life opens out to them in an endless field of work. And once in a while the world responds in a big way, letting them in, giving them a key, a crown. It does happen, it does. But usually it doesn't.

It wasn't that Faith had become political in some sort of moment of epiphany; it was more that the world had moved and she had moved too.

We can't be afraid of change, or else we'll miss out on everything.

Everyone else seemed to be circling their desired careers, not inhabiting them yet.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.   

You looked like you knew a thing or two, she told me later. But were ready to learn a lot more.

We do not stay as we were born, none of us." I poured a glass of wine. "We are all made. And this—what I am—was nothing but one more choice in a sea of choices.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.