“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
“Think about climbing a mountain. If you decide you're going up Everest, you don't start with a sprint. You'll never make it out of base camp if you do that. The secret is two fold: make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.” IfsThinkingTwoSecretProgressJourneyMountainApproachConsistentMmaClimbingCampsSteadyFoldsEverestClimbing MountainSprint Author:Georges St-Pierre
“The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.” MayLittlesIdeasDoneSeemsTodayScienceReligionGivenBehindsProgressCenturyEventsWillingHolyMountainEternalEssenceFundamentalsDareTheologyAbandonPopeTennessee Book:Minority Report Source: Minority Report
“Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.” MotivationalSuccessGrowthProgressJourneyMountainFinalsFulfillmentDestinationPerpetualContinuingSummitArrivingSpiralsFinal Destination Author:Wilferd Peterson
“My point is, as civilization is progressing, Mosaic law came down from the mountain, was handed to civilization, it emerged through the Greek civilization as the Greeks were developing their Age of Reason. And we're talking about the foundation of Western Civilization, and almost concurrently with that, Roman law was emerging as well.” WellsReasonAgeLawTalkingProgressCivilizationMountainFoundationWesternDevelopingGreekEmergingWestern CivilizationMosaicsAge Of ReasonGreek Civilization Author:Steve King
“Think about how long it took for the mountains to get there and look so beautiful. Think about how long it takes for this tree over us to grow. We're so impatient. Think about it. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.” ThinkingLooksLongBeautifulGrowsPerfectForeverAliveProgressTreeMountainLeafsImpatientWork In Progress Author:Daphne Zuniga