All Quotes By Tag: Progress

“Progress daily in your own uncertainty. Live in awareness of the questions.”

“Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.”

“You can’t reign in obscurity; you can’t shine in your comfort zone.”

“Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.”

“Majority of people entering your life only come to distract you. They ain’t there to be with you, support you or love you. They come to get something or stop you from the progress you are making. They are priks for your life. Don’t let them in. Or if happened to do so, make sure they understand that they don’t matter to you. Tell them, “you are a nobody, you can’t hurt me because I don’t see you, you don’t exist, you are just a bad dream. I am waking up now and you are not there anymore.”

“Problems don’t fix themselves until you fix your attitude”

“What is life, if not a vessel for collective humane progress!”

“Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.”

“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.”

“You can’t have favour with God and suffer in life. Learn to have God’s favour first, and the favour of men will fall in place automatically for you.”

“Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.”

“Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.”

“At the point where he, today’s Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into something trivial and often disgusting.And the further he was from childhood, the nearer he got to the present day, the more trivial and dubious his pleasures appeared. It started with law school. That had retained a little something that was really good: there was fun, there was friendship, there was hope. But in the last years the good times had become more exceptional. Then, at the beginning of his service with the governor, some good times came again: memories of making love to a woman. Then it became all confused, and the good times were not so many. After that there were fewer still; the further he went the fewer there were.Marriage. . .an accident and such a disappointment, and his wife’s bad breath, and all that sensuality and hypocrisy! And the deadlines of his working life, and those money worries, going on for a year, two years, ten, twenty – always the same old story. And the longer it went on the deadlier it became.’It’s as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That’s how it was. In society’s opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me…And now it’s all over. Nothing left but to die!”

“The concept of time can be viewed as a continuum extending from the past to the present and to the future in which events happen in an irreversible progression”

“You need to be able to think Independently.”