Quotes About Progress

Onward ever, backward never.

Don't rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.

Remember that you are nothing but a beginner.

Cu cat este mai mare criza, cu atat mai rapida este evolutia.

We don't have time for perfect.

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

It doesn't have to be perfect, and you don't have to be Plato.

Don't fall into a funk about the one that got away. Don't beat yourself up. Don't rage at the gods above. All that is nothing but distraction, and the last thing you need is further distraction. Grieve if you must, but grieve efficiently. Better to just say good-bye to the lost idea with dignity and continue onward. Find something else to work on—anything, immediately—and get at it. Keep busy.

Begin anywhere. Preferably right now. And if greatness should ever accidentally stumble upon you, let it catch you hard at work. Hard at work, and sane.

Chop up that failure and use it for bait to try to catch another project.

Fake it till you make it

that's what you have to do at the beginning; everybody imitates before they can innovate.

And experience had already instructed Henry that learning things gave a person advantage over other people

When you insist on your limitations, you are stuck with them.

Pliny the Elder wrote once: "If anyone will consider the abundance of Rome's public supply of water, for baths, cisterns, ditches, houses, gardens, villas; and take into account the distance over which it travels, the arches reared, the mountains pierced, the valleys spanned—he will admit that there never was anything more marvelous in the whole world.

She was happy because she had a partner, and because they were building something together, and because she believed deeply in what they were building, and because it amazed her to be included in such an undertaking.

Perfection takes time but comes for sure

She was making something of herself, making something with herself.

She wrote, "The greater the crisis, it seems, the swifter the evolution." She wrote, "All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency." She

I've watched far too many brilliant and gifted female creators say, "I am 99.8 percent qualified for this task, but until I master that last smidgen of ability, I will hold myself back, just to be on the safe side.

since Moses was in nappies.

These adaptations did not

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

You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.