Quotes About Progress

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new

In order to have more, you have to master what you have. You can't be fruitful until you are seedful" – T. E. Jakes

I was failing to accomplish whatever I might be capable of, a prophecy that seemed to fulfill itself more with each passing year as I fell behind friends and acquaintances in their patchwork progress toward building their adult lives.

Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward. To really do it, you needed someone's help.

Developments can happen right in front of you like that, you don't even see them.

The longer the night, the shorter the morning

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

You fucked up,' he said. 'Know that you're someone who fucked up. But know that doesn't make you a fuckup. The difference is a matter of repetition

New Years resolution: be more awesome.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow.

Antislavery, rather than slavery, was the world-historical innovation of the era.

The nineteenth-century abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker said that the moral arc of the world tends towards justice

Duplication and transfer from other genetic sources are examples of nature's ability to co-opt existing tools: evolution the tinkerer. Evolution also creates from scratch. We call these de novo mutations, and they arise when a seemingly nonsensical run of DNA mutates and changes into a readable sentence.

For our purposes, if we are to look at the evolution that led to where we are now, instead of the nice neat tree, I think it could reasonably be described as one big, million-year clusterfuck.

For the sake of perspective, life has existed on Earth for about 3.9 billion years. The species Homo sapiens, of which you are a member, emerged a mere 300,000 years ago, as far as we know, in pockets in the east and north of Africa. Writing began about 6,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, somewhere in what we now call the Middle East.

Are we still evolving?' is a question that geneticists get asked a lot. Here is the answer: yes.

As long as humans keep having sex and that sex results in more humans, then we are evolving. We can avoid these evolutionary changes no more easily than we can change the weather.