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Quotes About Progress

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.
~ Henry Petroski
I think we all learn probably more from our mistakes than we do our successes.
~ Tom Thibodeau
Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.
~ Caterina Fake
I think you learn more from your failures than your successes.
~ Andi Dorfman
A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.
~ Vanilla Ice
Other people's successes are good news - for them and for you. Good for you because they show you a way to go.
~ Steve Wynn
My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.
~ Dianna Agron
I'm motivated by very small successes.
~ Beth Brooke
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
~ Glen Hansard
One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.
~ Charli XCX
In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.
~ Mary Beard
My position's always been we need to build on successes within ACA, fix the problems.
~ Brad Schneider
Failure is part of life. My failures have taught me more than my successes. So, it is important to fall and it is equally important to fall and rise.
~ Kashmira Shah
You learn more from your setbacks than from your successes.
~ Erin O'Toole
Successes and failures are part of life.
~ Varun Sandesh
It's part of being successful, just planning your life, catalogue successes, keep track of things that are important to you and make them a reality.
~ Frank Shamrock
It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.
~ Isoroku Yamamoto
I don't think there's too many Aboriginal people out there who are successful that don't want to help make gains for our people.
~ Adam Goodes
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
~ Idris Elba
When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.
~ Aamir Khan
If Google Books is successful, others will follow.
~ Sergey Brin
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
~ H. G. Wells
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
~ Brian Tracy
It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.
~ Danny Meyer