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Quotes About Progress

productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Everything was told! Then we could begin something new.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
Light tomorrow with today.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You don't get everything all at once. You wait.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Well, I've said it often enough to others: there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Healing hurts, but hurting heals.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Everyone seemed to be in a blind hurry, and there was no relief in sight. Technology rushed us ever forward, and simple civility - a certain kindness and care - got sacrificed.
~ Elizabeth Berg
This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let's go ahead and let her have it all.
~ Elizabeth Berg
This is life, uh? We lose something here; we get something there. The trick is to stop looking in the old place to find the new thing.
~ Elizabeth Berg
It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief. People forget about the value of adversity.
~ Elizabeth Berg
What Maddy has come to believe is that certain life circumstances make for people who walk with a psychic limp for all of their days. Never mind the progress they seem to make, peel back a few delicate layers and there it is: a stubborn doubting of worth; an inability to stand with conviction behind anything without wondering if they should be standing there at all; a sense that if they move in this direction, it's wrong; and if they move in that direction, that's wrong, too.
~ Elizabeth Berg
there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.
~ Elizabeth Berg
certain life circumstances make for people who walk with a psychic limp for all of their days. Never mind the progress they seem to make, peel back a few delicate layers and there it is: a stubborn doubting of worth; an inability to stand with conviction behind anything without wondering if they should be standing there at all; a sense that if they move in this direction, it's wrong; and if they move in that direction, that's wrong, too.
~ Elizabeth Berg
progress he'd made. Advance to Boardwalk. He couldn't help it; he started whistling.
~ Elizabeth Berg
there are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise, you'll stay in a place you've outgrown. When
~ Elizabeth Berg
It's good for you to be a bit uncomfortable from time to time, especially if you're only a few steps away from relief.
~ Elizabeth Berg
And when you lose something, you have to remember that then there is room for the next thing. And there is always a next thing.
~ Elizabeth Berg
You couldn't keep up with life. It was like fabric running through a sewing machine, everything slipping through your fingers and moving away from you.
~ Elizabeth Berg
People must hope so much when they tear streets up and fight at barricades. But, whoever wins, the streets are laid again and the trams start running again. One hopes too much of destroying things. If revolutions do not fail, they fail you.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
whatever she was up to, the whole thing made him
~ Elizabeth Gaffney
But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey!
~ Elizabeth George
Something is always better than nothing" no matter how small that "something" is.
~ Elizabeth George
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert