Quotes About Progress

History is retroactive math

It's 1991, and a lot of things that are about to happen haven't happened yet.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

it's the same monkeys, different barrel.

Probably no people embrace change more enthusiastically, at least in theory, than Americans. Who we are at birth is less important to us than who we will become. We are expected—indeed, obligated—not just to be, but to become.

In study after study, researchers find that if people are unclear about where they are going, they'll just default to their old patterns and habits.

if you're not failing, you're not actually being particularly experimental).

He could have cured cancer by now, if he'd never gotten high.

It's hard to know, ever, where a story beings. We touch down in a world fully inhabited by others, a drama already in progress. By the time we make our entrance - incontinent and screaming, like dirty bombs detonating - the climax is a distant memory. Our arrival is not the beginning; it is a consequence.

What is only crudely established during character creation is fleshed out in play.

No aspect of personality can ever be changed through experience points.

We cannot think our way into a new kind of living. We must live our way into a new kind of thinking.

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

The past is life mistakes, Much like a picture is like the past. A picture is a memory of a moment in time one can have in a physical form, the now,being a current view of ones present past Fast forward to a a projected future.

It's the cycle of life," I say, remembering Starlily's words. "Things need to move forward, not backward.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

Sometimes you gotta excise a wound before it can heal.

The old man would call us into his study and say the same three words. "Invest. Cultivate. Create.

Life in the fast lane," Michael's reply. "You have to adjust for inflation.

There's nothing like speed for getting out of your own head—and out of your own way.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing.

It's as if we have lamps but won't plug them in because our ancestors believed electricity was spirit-made. Having lost belief in spirits, we sit in the dark. There's no need. We have holidays and rituals, crafted like tungsten and glass for glowing. We have poems that buzz with electric charge. Let's plug them in.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.