Quotes About Progress

Whatever the world looks like now. That's not always how it's going to look. There's more. There's always more.

As incredible as it seemed, time kept moving forward for the rest of the world. The rest of the world that wasn't waiting.

Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all. You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward and up," she says.

And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.

But the thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.

This is not the way our story ends. You know this' - 'Stories do not end.' - 'Ah, you are right, but you are also wrong. They end and they begin every moment. It is all about when you stop the telling.

Smart boys make useless men.

I don't know what's ahead," I say. "I don't know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it's gotta be better than what's behind. It's gotta be.

There's more than this, Sethy," Gudmund said. "This sucks beyond belief, but there's more. We just have to get there.

villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.

The thing about good ideas is that they grow other ideas.

Por increíble que pudiera parecer, el tiempo seguía pasando para el resto del mundo. El resto del mundo que no estaba a la espera.

Life equals running and when we stop running, maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

La destrucción es algo muy gratificante.

Cumplir años es envejecer, crecer es otra cosa.

There Are No Ends, Only Changes.

Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new chapter. The way your bookmark -fancy, modest, scrap paper, candy wrapper -moved through the width of it, marking your progress, a little further each time you folded it shut.

Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.

Learn to take criticism. Your first draft won't be perfect, and it's damaging to the book to think that it is. Every great book you've ever read has been rewritten a dozen times. This is the hardest think to learn (trust me), but very, very important.

It feels like a threat. It feels like the world changing and leaving you behind.

It is always easier to keep a rotten tale than to learn a new one.

Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education.