#ogre

To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#perseverance #progress #sailing #sea #perseverance

Q: So, why do you write these strong female characters? Whedon: Because you’re still asking me that question. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#progress #understanding #character

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. Become open to new information that can refine, improve, and enhance your way of thinking. This will empower your way of living. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#ideas #learn #progress #thinking #experience

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#love

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dressing #innovation #introspection #melancholy #philosophical

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#politics #progress #the-true-believer #communism

Stagnation is self-abdication. ↗

— Ryan Talbot

#progress #self-abdication #self-esteem #self-worth #stagnation

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#confrontation #progress #love

He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human—human werewolves, human dwarfs, human trolls …the melting pot melts in one direction only, and so we make progress. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #progress #funny

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#both #governments #make #mobs #need