Quotes About Progress

If you are in search of happiness, make sure that your journey is free from things that get you caught up in the past. If your path is blocked by stuff that makes you remember things that do not help you move on, then it is about time to let go.

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

About 10 000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

Nothing can change until we acknowledge what is, as I have learned over time.

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always gotten

Change isn't the end... It's an unfolding, the beginning of something different.

For all they have the means of faster travel, faster communication, faster just about everything, they seem to have less time.

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Home wasn't built in a day.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist. It's perfect in its existence. The only way it could be imperfect would be to NOT exist.