#ogre

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#declaration #first #independence #interdependence #personality

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#another #call #exchange #nuisance #progress

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ethics #morality #progress #society #sorrow

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. ↗

— Millard Fillmore

#mistake #progress #strange

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#continual #growth #improvement #meaning #progress

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ↗

— Henry Ford

#beginning #coming #keeping #progress #together

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#also #democracy #economy #expanding #freedoms

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#because #definitely #drawn #get #happens