“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.” IfsThinkingWritingLongImportantMatterEnoughWaitingLinesChanceNovelProgressTenPaperComputerSentencesTechniqueCoffeeStuckShopsDescriptionHookJamChances AreNotebookCoffee Shop Author:Naomi Novik
“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!” YearsWellsResultsProgressChangedPaintingOne DayTenYellowPalette Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.” LittlesMadeRealThreeAnimalAliveProgressMysteryTenBirdHundredStructurePlantFishesSmallestSeventiesInsectsNinetyEightyDotsMarvellous Author:Hokusai
“I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea.” IfsYearsMadeAgeFoundViewsWifeProgressYouthTenMiseryDrinkingOld AgeMiserableTeaBeerMakersLazinessFifteenDestroyersFifteen YearsTea Drinking Author:William Cobbett
“Congratulations to the Auburn team and coach Malzahn. The piece for us was that we took some first and ten's and could not get a third down conversion. We kept putting the defense on the field. We tackled, we played hard, but offensively we did not execute. We are a work in progress. Certainly a group of men that are committed to fixing things. But frankly we did not get it done today.” MenFirstsHardDoneTodayPiecesProgressGroupsTeamFieldsTenThirdsCommittedDefenseCoachesConversionTigersCongratulationsFixingGet It DoneWork In ProgressLsuAuburnFixing Things Author:Les Miles
“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.” YearsNationsDifficultWealthMoralProgressShareMaterialsThousandTenIntellectualHungerPopulationViolentHungryApplicationVirtuousGrossAdvancementRemarksBecky Book:Science and Culture: And Other Essays Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays
“Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.” MenWayWantHumansWellsMeanTwoUseWaterGrowingProgressEconomicGrewDevelopmentTenDiscoveryHorseGrassOne ManApplicationElectricHouseholdBladesBetter WaysSteamBlades Of GrassHuman PowerEconomic ProgressElectric Power Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.” WorldYearsFirstsMomentsLife IsFeltMoralProgressImpossibleGenerationsTenTradeSouthIgnorantPlanesDelusionThat MomentOur WorldAncestorUnfairTowersAbolishWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterLife Is Unfair Author:Sam Harris
“We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.” MadeStillsCareAbleCompanyStepsRolesMillionsStruggleProgressTenMajorsHealthcareEmployedEmployersProvisionAffordableSteps ForwardInsurance CompaniesAffordable Care ActHealth Insurance Companies Author:Hillary Clinton
“Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.” PeopleYearsYoungViewsStepsFiveProgressDevelopmentTenPhotographyPhotographerPoint Of ViewInevitable Author:Ansel Adams