Quotes About Progress

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

collaborative teams think of common formative assessments as academic scrimmages or dress rehearsals.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.

Change has it's enemies.

The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.

cover each with plastic wrap (you see, I hope, that I am no mere antiquarian, insisting on barefoot walks through unimproved sculleries. I am as grateful as anyone for real progress as any modernist. More so, perhaps. Anything that preserves freshness for the pot is on the side of the angels.

The kingdom grows, he says, because the kingdom is already planted. It grows of itself and in its own good time. Above all, it grows we know not how.

Kierkegaard's most remarkable and subtle observations, that life can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards. I think it means you have to turn around and start walking backwards, facing the past, if the present is going to make any sense at all.

Adapt or die, that's as true for religion as it is for people.

You make mistakes, people die. You move forward. Perfect people accomplish nothing.

Una persona no puede correr y aprender a la vez. Debe permanecer en un lugar durante un tiempo.

Avance rápido. ¿No estaría escribiendo estas mismas palabras a 800 kilómetros al norte, dentro de doce años?

Dietary research reveals that many people go off their nutritional diets on or about day 13—a Fibonacci number. Yet if they can pass critical day 13 and make it through to day 21, they usually will succeed in losing weight and establishing the new habit pattern that allowed them to lose the weight.

This means that days 1, 2 and 3 are the most important days in getting off to a good start in hitting the next milestones––days 5, 8, 13 and then day 21.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Hector Berlioz's witty comment, "Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of its students.

You got to where you are in your life right now by moving along the path of least resistance.

When you merely choose a process, you do not establish structural tension, and you do not make energy available to complete the creative process.

Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far more advanced than what he wrote in his twenties or in his teens. The more music he wrote, the more he was able to write.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.