Quotes About Progress

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Which is the point: the future looks a lot more like the past than you might expect.

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

Don't keep on with what is wrong. Look ahead, not behind.

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

I don't major on my past. I major on my future and my future is bright in God.

You may not have been in control of your past, but you are in control of your future. And it's time to move forward.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

In situations where there are no real feasible solutions to a problem, the gathering and publication of performance data serves as a form of virtue signaling. There is no real progress to show, but the effort demonstrated in gathering and publicizing the data satisfies a sense of moral earnestness. In lieu of real progress, the progress of measurement becomes a simulacrum of success.

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

If you want to help someone in a bad situation, you need to give them the opportunity to work their way out of it.

Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

Vuol dire che la felicità non esiste? Esiste quando tutto è ancora davanti a te, quando sei a poche centinaia di metri dal tuo obiettivo, quando sei ad un passo dalla meta. È proprio questo il momento di sentire la felicità

We often imagine that we'll develop more quickly if conflicts reach a conclusion, but this is rarely the case. Often the quest for resolution

there's no point in mourning mistakes when you can fix them

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.