Quotes About Progress

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

To the stalled mind, the present stage will always seem advanced. To the free mind, the present stage will always seem elementary.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

You can press pause as much as you like, but it won't stop what's going to happen. Time to press start again; to un-pause this game and let it play out to the end.

One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.

The ladders of life that we scale merrily Move mysteriously around So that when you think you're climbing up, man In fact you're climbing down

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

I'm fast becoming the one who leaves things behind

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

Pain helps us grow stronger.

Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.

Organs crawl like aphids upon the immobile motor of becoming

This book was supposed to be finished at Easter, like God.

Neo-China arrives from the future.

Either technology exists within time or time exists within technology.

What is new to modernity is a rate of the obsolescence of truth...

No more hired guns; just David, Rick and myself, with the engineer at the desk, a two-track left running – and as much time as we needed. Although bitter experience had taught us to be prepared for disappointment, and though there was no pressure to come up with anything concrete at these sessions, the very fact of booking the studio was an indication of our commitment.

My report card comments for the 'Atom Heart Mother' track would be: good idea, could try harder. 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' on the second side is a similar example.

The end of the Animals tour marked another low point. David now says that this was one period when he really felt that it might be all up for Pink Floyd. His view is that we had achieved, and sustained, the success we had originally wanted as a band, and accordingly were finding it difficult to see what more we could do.