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“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.”

Looks Stills School Results Novel Progress Heard Changed High School Hollywood Election Producers Life Changing Screenwriters Drawers Wishbones

Author:Tom Perrotta

“This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.”

World Humans Has Beens Ideas Past Order Culture Community Quality Progress This World Changed Return Notion New World Units Society And Culture

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!”

Years Wells Results Progress Changed Painting One Day Ten Yellow Palette

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.”

Has Beens Made Fear Change Progress Worst Changed African American Professors Realised Things Have Changed Worst Fear

Author:Derrick Bell

“I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.”

Way Firsts Whole Stories Progress Movement Changed Length Zero Realising Quarters Up And Down Plunge Rewriting Caterpillars

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.”

World Form Progress Changed Substance

Book:The Avalanche

Source: The Avalanche

“The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.”

Ifs Men Feelings Hands Joy Powerful Progress Dog Changed Dear Oneself Satisfaction Deprived Doing Good Respectability Levers

Author:Albert Camus

“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.”

“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.”

“The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.”

Men Humans Animal Race Existence Destiny Progress Conditions Changed Morality Authority Code Human Race Gaps Permanence Separating

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.”

Writing Creative Progress Changed Drink Fragments

Author:Karl Hyde

“I realize that the 2020s are going to be completely different than this decade has been. There's going to be rapid progress. One of the most important aspects is going to be cheaper access to space. It changes everything. We have the ideas and the technology to do a lot of things, but we're limited financially, so, by reducing the cost of access to space, the whole problem is changed. Ultimately, the pieces that are coming together are going to allow us to send humans to Mars - and bring them back.”

Important Different Problem Together Realizing Technology Progress Changed

Author:Jeremy Hansen

“Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.”

People Knows Way Humans Know How Progress Changed Edges Advertising Human Experience

Author:Jaron Lanier