Quotes About Progress

He held up a DVD in a blue cardboard envelope, which bore Pete's distinctive scrawl. "Can't believe the technology." "If I have a good Christmas I'll buy myself a DVD player. Still have a year of car payments left." She paused. "Prices keep coming down.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. These were distant and magic lands and nobody went to them just for a holiday. You went there to work. Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours and nothing is fabulous anymore.

Sawdust in the gear-boxes, the electric-drill on the speedometer cables.

Tortoise, Tortoise get bigger, bigger. Come on Tortoise grow up, puff up, shoot up! Spring up, Blow up swell up! Gorge! Guzzle! Stuff! Gulp! Put on fat, Tortoise, Put on fat! get on, Get on! Gobble food!!

Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

If your going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.

Slowly, wearily, the foxes began to slope the tunnel up

Now when something is growing very very slowly, it is almost impossible to notice it happening.

Your head SHRINKS into your neck… "And your neck SHRINKS into your body… "And your body SHRINKS into your legs… "And your legs SHRINK into your feet. And in the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.

slow at first … just a very gradual inching upwards … up, up, up … inch by inch … getting taller and taller … about an inch every few

If you feel stuck in your life, like it's passing you by, like there's something way better for you somewhere out there and you're missing it, try this—try throwing yourself into the small things and repeating to yourself: This is where I start.

Far too often, we don't start because we can't get our minds around the entire thing. We don't take the first step because we can't figure out the seventeenth step. But you don't have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1. Start with 1.

When we don't throw ourselves completely into it and we hold back our best efforts because of what happened in the past, we are letting the past decide the future.

The way of Jesus is a journey, not a destination.

You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.

Goals and plans are fine, and they can often be effective motivators, but success promises something it can't deliver. As soon as you reach your goal, success creates a new one, which creates new anxieties and stresses.

We're all endlessly figuring it out because Spirit keeps doing something new. We can fight this, resist this, dig in our heels, wish things were the way they used to be, or we can embrace it. We can choose to see it with fear and frustration, or we can see it as thrilling and invigorating. Organizations can keep trying to relive their glory days, wishing things were like they were when they started.