Quotes About Progress

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. "I need to make my bones.

The earliest evidence of recognizable human art is forty thousand years old. The earliest evidence of human agriculture, by contrast, is only ten thousand years old. Which means that somewhere in our collective evolutionary story, we decided it was way more important to make attractive, superfluous items than it was to learn how to regularly feed ourselves.

any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.

The former Catholic nun (who oughtta know about guilt, after all) wouldn't hear of it. "Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Qualquer movimento é melhor do que a inércia, pois a inspiração sempre será atraída para o movimento.

He realized that "failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.

El final es el mismo, así que mejor si el viaje es feliz.

Remember that you're nothing but a beginner - even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginner here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go.

Todo pasa. Con el tiempo todo pasa.

You may want your work to be perfect, in other words; I just want mine to be finished.

Perfectionism stops people from completing their work, yes—but even worse, it often stops people from beginning their work. Perfectionists

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Everybody imitates before they can innovate.

We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures

If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

Done is better than good." I

Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too.

Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And

All the good ideas seem daunting at first.

The hardest part of your life is behind you now.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress.

It could take me a whole year just to finish one tiny short story. Most of the time, all I was doing was imitating my favorite authors, anyhow. I went through a Hemingway stage (who doesn't?), but I also went through a pretty serious Annie Proulx stage and a rather embarrassing Cormac McCarthy stage. But that's what you have to do at the beginning; everybody imitates before they can innovate.

We don't have time for perfect.