Quotes About Progress

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I could, for the first time in maybe thirty years, make my own decision, trust it, and move forward.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb.

The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity," is how I explain it to Sarah.

No one can push you, pull you, or go with you. All thoughts, ideas, feelings, concepts, and systems of knowledge and belief boil down to this one unequivocal distinction; sewer or sunshine, dungeon or daylight, ego or surrender, obstruction or flow, segregation or integration, vertical entrenchment or horizontal progress.

You go forward when you can't stay where you are. That's the process.

The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity

The subtext of every question is, Am I making progress by asking questions and trying to understand the answers? And the subtext of every answer is, Yes, you are going somewhere while sitting here talking or reading. This is progress. Be at peace. You are progressing and well-progressed. That's the obvious lie we want to hear and those who tell it most convincingly are the most respected and revered and sought after.

I'm sympathetic with new writers who focus so much on the beginning. That's what you show friends or beta readers to see if you are just wasting your time or if there's something there. But you won't really know until you finish the whole book.

Life is a series of abandonings.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. —Mason Cooley

When given a choice, choose the thing that scares you a little. If it's 100% safe, it is holding you back.

Build what you need as you need it, aggressively refactoring as you go along; don't spend a lot of time planning for grandiose, unknown future scenarios. Good software can evolve into what it will ultimately become.

As a software developer, you are your own worst enemy. The sooner you realize that, the better off you'll be.

we programmers spend our lives writing code so that our fellow human beings no longer need to write code

even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age four, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. The