Quotes About Progress

You can't look back. You can't dial up euphoria on demand, or try to recreate what happened a quarter century ago. You move forward and you live your life and try to be a better person every day than you were the day before. You take each day as a new journey, even as you are grateful for the ones you have already had.

Even an undercurrent of division and strife will weaken that body of believers. The pastor of such a church ends up on a treadmill, expending a lot of effort and energy but making little progress.

But the Bible teaches that we are always either drawing nearer to God or falling away. There is no holding pattern.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

This is the cardinal rule for grades and report cards: Parents don't get report cards—kids do.

Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!

Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

He hoped the tower would be the first to send signals—and power—wirelessly to anywhere in the world.

There are reams of evidence of technological innovations by the ancient Chinese, the ancient Indians, and the ancient Semites—emphasis on the "ancient.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

If you want to innovate, you have to iterate!

Iterative development, when accompanied with reasonable end-of-iteration reviews—product, technical, process, team—is also self-correcting.

In my early years of iterative development, I thought timeboxes were actually about time. What I came to realize is that timeboxes are actually about forcing tough decisions.

The formula for success is simple: deliver today, adapt tomorrow.

Optimization implies that we already know how to do something but that we now need to improve it. Innovation implies that we don't know how to do something, and searching for that knowledge is paramount.

Creativity and innovation are the emergent results of well functioning agile teams.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999).

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.

When teachers stop learning, so do students.

The greatest accelerant to a cultural flame is leadership.

Don't get stuck in the past. Celebrate the company's history (heritage), but focus primarily on the present and future (culture).

Seek out incremental wins. Instead of immediately revolutionizing the company, start small and crush a few things first; once you've earned trust, you will garner bigger responsibilities and influence.