Quotes About Progress

As Kaiser Permanente's guide The Plant-Based Diet: A Healthier Way to Eat puts it: "If you find you cannot do a plant-based diet 100 percent of the time, then aim for 80 percent. Any movement toward more plants and fewer animal products [and processed foods] can improve your health!"3

One study found that twice daily—upon waking and again right before bed—appeared superior to once a day (about six pounds versus two pounds of weight loss over twelve weeks).2578

The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it keeps people from even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week. Why not scale it down to once a month or reserve it for special occasions? We can not let "perfect" be the enemy of the good. It's really the day-to-day stuff that matters most. What you eat on special occasions is insignificant compared to what you eat day in and day out.

We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Note that to break a bad habit or create a new one, we have to select a new action (eat an apple) rather than just give up an existing behavior (don't eat potato chips).3798 To activate the habit-forming mechanism, you likely need a new alternative response, rather than a nonresponse.

Only the weak rest on their laurels and dote on past triumphs.

Socialism is still beginning, a task to be accomplished, not a destiny to be awaited.

The measure of a country's prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

Perhaps one of the lessons of any nation's history is that the people are indeed responsible for the sins of the fathers; they are not guilty, but responsible for setting right the wrongs done in the past.

They'd pulled off the biggest single-season turnaround, a forty-two-win improvement, in the history of the sport.

Not to have known about this! That here, That nowhere else in the wasteful, wilful, Death-wishing world, here Röntgen focused his ray And the eye first saw right through the skin, So that now without knives we see what is wrong Or is going to be wrong. We still need a ray To coax the delicate wings from the commonplace husk And detect why the horde we are destroys itself.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

We can all take something positive from the class of 2020; to accept what has happened in the past, to embrace the present, and to remain open to the probability that it will get better in the future.

Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count; always looking up.

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

The reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here".

Benjamin Franklin cautioned, "When you're finished changing, you're finished.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. — WILLIAM JAMES

It doesn't help to try to change (the system) to accord with your system of thought. The momentum of history behind it is too great for anything really significant to evolve from that kind of action. The thing to do is learn to live in your period of history as a human being. That's something else, and it can be done.364

What gets measured, gets managed." If we measure the wrong things, we will not achieve our goals.

Leaf blowers have taken a world which was, on the whole, a decent place to live, in spite of talk radio, and turned it into a noisy and unpleasant vale filled with atomized bits of vegetal detritus.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

No outer teaching will affect human progress as much as our common interest in learning from one another. It is now a time for us to draw from the deep pool of our collective creative energy to craft a future to which we can all belong.

I have failed over and over gain in my life and that is why I succeed.