“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.” WritingSecretCuttingProgressRocksMountainPicksFlowHighwaysChipping AwaySlow Progress Author:Piers Anthony
“In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.” MayLongArtEndsChoicesEnjoyCan DoClearProgressFlowArt And ScienceEclecticDeltaClear Direction Author:Robert Bateman
“I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills.” FeelsSeemsAmericaProgressStrangeConcernedFlowNotionCuresTragicCherishIrrationalMisconception Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress...” LooksMovingProgressJourneyMovementFlowPreparationHouseholdPacking Author:Lorraine Hansberry
“Circles in water as they wider flow The less conspicuous in their progress grow, And when at last they trench upon the shore, Distinction ceases and they're view'd no more.” LastsGrowsWaterViewsProgressFlowCirclesCeaseDistinctionShoreTrenches Author:George Crabbe
“Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.” LooksShowsTurnsPlayerProgressSkyRocksCarReturnBandRainFlowHotCloudsSmokeTeenagerBoredGiantsEtcSarcasmVillageStomachDestroyingEyebrowsTurn-onCdsEruptionLavaCar RentalVolcanic EruptionsCd Players Author:Dave Barry
“But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.” LittlesEndsMomentsProblemProgressHigherSolutionsFlowImprovementMasteryPulling Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.” IfsIdeasWealthCreativityCreativeProgressPlansCapitalismFlowFoundationSurpriseSocialismCharacteristicsMinoritiesGoodsSurprisingDefining Author:George Gilder
“What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.” NeedsTryingYearsLastsFoundOpportunityBehindsCompanyProgressHappenedMediaIndustrySurvivalMassGardenFlowInnovationFingersHidingLast YearRapidsMass Media Author:Arianna Huffington
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” LawPurposeOrderSocialJusticeProgressFailingFlowLawyerBlockLaw And OrderSocial ProgressDams Book:Why We Can't Wait Source: Why We Can't Wait
“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.” ActionFearChangeVisionProgressFlowErrorsTrialsReactionsRhythmTrial And ErrorEbb And FlowAction And ReactionOver Confidence Author:Bruce Barton