Uneven Progress Quotes

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

It's just the story of my career, really. I will have good weeks; I'll have bad weeks. It's just a roller-coaster.

Cultural growth, like economic development rarely comes as a steady advance on all fronts at once.

I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of others.

Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

One looks ahead to a war and imagines it as a single, final, absolute event. It is nothing of the kind. War is a condition, like peace, with good days and bad days, moods of optimism and despair.

Everyone's journey is different in football; no one's the same.

The future of the West is not a limitless tending upwards and onwards for all time towards our presents ideals, but a single phenomenon of history, strictly limited and defined as to form and duration, which covers a few centuries

If someone has reached a certain level, it is always expected that he becomes better and better, but there are also phases in which it does not run so smoothly - and that's human.

The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.

You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it's not evenly distributed.