#ogres

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#progress

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware. ↗

— David Sedaris

#progress

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence. ↗

— John O'Donohue

#progress

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ↗

— George Orwell

#progress

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#progress #work #progress

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#utopia #progress

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American... ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#dubois #identity #pragmatism #progress #progress

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#chords #could #harmonic #heard #high

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ↗

— William Blake

#energy #existence #hate #human #human existence

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#progress