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“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.”

People Thinking Life Humans Persons Life Is Change Human Beings Mistake Psychology Our Lives Progress Right Now Constant Finished Temporary Fleeting Transient Work In Progress

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Government Faces Humanity Results Progress Essence Increase Constant Aids Tendencies Bitter Opposition Permanence

Author:H. L. Mencken

“From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.”

Men Firsts States Form Found Enjoy Race Progress Land Constant Fruit Conquer Realms Beast Feds Prey Civilisation

Book:Religion and Art

Source: Religion and Art

“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”

“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. "I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was.”

People Feels Age School Young Growth Progress Ought High School Exciting Constant Aphorism Nevertheless Smooth Adolescence Tangible Erikson

Author:Stella Chess

“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.”

Years Wells Doe Two Play Helping Bigs Quality Roles Five Progress Achieve Football Six Constant Seven Two Years Seven Years Life Time

Author:Berti Vogts

“The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.”

Men Enough Government Natural Powerful Effort Progress Conditions Constant Errors Investing Improvement Every Man Administration Spite Uniforms Extravagance

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Looks Ends States Done Faces Progress Constant Diamond

Author:Suraj Sharma

“Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?”

Source: It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership

“The constant need to move on, and to document progress, in normal schools means that education tends to be cut up into bite sized task.”

Needs Mean School Moving Cutting Progress Normal Tasks Constant Bites Documents Need To Move On

Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.”

Individual Effort Attention Responsibility Destiny Doubt Progress Blessing Constant Missions Vigilance Best Effort Individual Responsibility Byu Personal Best Individual Success

Author:Cecil O. Samuelson