Bryant H. McGill Quotes

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

I love to watch times change!

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

I like to see things start, grow, and then move on to better things.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.