“A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work, and patience, which is why our life is a journey and perforce a heroic one.” PersonsDoneLife IsPerfectDealsOur LivesProgressJourneyDisciplineHealthyStayingHeroicNot PerfectWork In ProgressLife Is A JourneyHealthy Person Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“I'm a patient person. I think that's one thing that I feel comfortable I can deal with - the downfall and the errors, as long as I see progress and people trying.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingPersonsLongI CanDealsProgressOne ThingComfortableErrorsPatientDownfallPatient Person Author:Phil Jackson
“Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.” FeelsYearsSoulSpiritualityGrowsDealsProgressGoes OnHigherDifficultyDeeperConquerAcquireFacultyWorth LivingAcquisitionUnfoldingLife Worth LivingDescending Book:Self-culture, lectures Source: Self-culture, lectures
“There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.” KnowsWorldOpportunityLevelsDealsProgressGenerationsInformationIgnoranceHigherPerformancesComplexesMachineryHigher Level Book:Making Sense Source: Making Sense
“Progress. There's a good deal too much o' this progress about nowadays, an', what's more, it'll have to stop.” DealsToo MuchProgress Author:Winifred Holtby
“Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.” HumansDealsRaceProgressCrimeEternalResponsibleMajorityAveragePunishmentBlissOverwhelmingDecencyDepartureCapital PunishmentHuman Progress Author:H. L. Mencken
“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.” Has BeensRealWholeMovingPoliticalForceDealsRolesEconomyTakenGrowingProgressEconomicMiracleDemocraticChinaRussiaPolitical SystemsDemocratic SocietyEconomic Progress Author:Milton Friedman
“I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.” TryingBelieveDealsKnowingProgressOne ThingHundredDon't BelieveStuckBlockWriter's BlockBad WordForward Progress Author:Neil Gaiman
“I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.” KnowsOrderDealsMoralKnow HowProgressLaysUpliftingIrritating Author:William Howard Taft