Quotes About Progress

I am truly anxious to get on with my life.

You must thing of those six steps not as preparation for the beginning but as the beginning itself p10

You must think of those six steps not as a preparation for the beginning, but as the beginning itself

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you can make the whole trip that way.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.

passage to a limit should always be the last operation, not the first.

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?

It is not true that the up cycle is good and the down cycle bad, except in the mind's judgment. Growth is usually considered positive, but nothing can grow forever. If growth, of whatever kind, were to go on and on, it would eventually become monstrous and destructive. Dissolution is needed for new growth to happen. One cannot exist without the other.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

Don't get attached to any words. They are only stepping stones, to be left behind as quickly as possible.

You are aware of where you want to go, but you honor and give your fullest attention to the step that you are taking at this moment.

After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our future goals determine which actions we take in the present.

Your mind is telling you that you cannot get there from here. Something needs to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free and fulfilled. It is saying, in fact, that you need time — that you need to find, sort out, do, achieve, acquire, become, or understand something before you can be free or complete.

When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don't forget: The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. As

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake.

There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life.

You have a name, a past, a life situation, a future. But in one essential respect, you are not the same person you were before