Quotes About Progress

Everything changes your life.

When she began graduate school, our people [blacks] couldn't attend classes with whites at the University of Arkansas. After much grumbling and dickering, white folks had begun to allow small departments to integrate, class by class.

My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1954.

I just want it to go back to the way it was." "It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.

And we all end up where we started

It'll never go back to the way it was, Frankie. But you have to make sure it goes forward.

people hate change and, more than anything, they hate those who try to change things.

Finnikin had learned over the years not to think of anything beyond the practicalities of getting from one point to another. To focus on the achievable.

I think my family has come a long way. The sad thing is that so many haven't. So many have stayed in their own little world. Some because they don't want to leave it, others because the world around them won't let them in.

Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

You've been in the Wild World for long enough to know that everything changes... -Burnet to Moss

With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.

maybe they aren't mistakes at all. Maybe it's just that the path to the place you're supposed to be is longer?

Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.

My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.

As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

Going backwards is never an option.

There was nothing wrong with progress, with the evolution of a society, with developments in technology, but when avarice directed progress, the natural order of a community was destroyed.

It never got easier, it just got different.

It wasn't always imperative to get 'Excellent'. Sometimes it was healthy to have something to work towards.

Perhaps we should see what comes next.

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.