Quotes About Progress

Even one second ahead of you is darkness.

The bigger the change we hope for, the longer we must be willing to invest, work for, and wait for it.

Assume any career moves you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Sayings from Chairman Jobs." 1. Real artists ship. 2. It's better to be a pirate than join the navy. 3. Mac in a book by 1986.

Learning isn't done to you; it's something you do.

As a counterexample, consider the case of the developer who claims ten years of experience, but in reality it was one year of experience repeated nine times. That doesn't count as experience.

With a tracer bullet approach, you can implement very small bits of functionality very quickly, and get immediate feedback on how well your team communicates and delivers.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking.

Work for peace. Think before you say something. Are you making things better or just taking out your trash. The point is growth. Constant process of reclamation. Clearing out the deadwood and making room for things to grow.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

It's just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

The direction you are currently traveling—relationally, financially, spiritually, and the list goes on and on—will determine where you end up in each of those respective arenas.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

To get from where we don't want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction.

Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.

We only get one shot at every season of life. Whether or not we learned anything becomes evident in the seasons that follow.

We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. …if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

Experience is often a brutal teacher. Experience eats up you most valuable commodity:time. Learning from experience can eat up years. It can steal an entire stage of life.

One gets to the place one wants to be the same way one got to the place one didn't want to be—by putting one foot in front of the other and moving in a specific direction.