Quotes About Progress

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.

If buyer's remorse ever accomplished anything in this world," Max said, "we'd all still be living in caves.

There are no Territories to light out for, not in this century. It was no longer easy to become the new you. New or old, you were already you.

Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.

The story of New York is speed, is movement, movement without stopping, on the go all the time, gotta hustle

You wanna know what's happening to New York?" he asked. "I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store, you look at the covers of science fiction magazines from the thirties. That's what's happening to New York.

In newspapers and magazines I read about what's happening. Apparently Facebook exists to extinguish friendship. E-mail and texting destroy the post office. eBay replaces garage sales. Amazon eviscerates bookstores. Technology speeds, then doubles its speed, then doubles it again. Art takes naps.

This here will be the future tense and you will be able to do anything you will like in it.

A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

...when you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.