Quotes About Progress

time runs only one way.

Turning, she unlocked the next door and went through it to the larger part of the

Recognize the difference between The End and An End.

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

and braking

The ability to take a walk from one point to the next point, that is half the battle won.

Some people, surely, die on the way to something. Then we call them the late so-and-so.

As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

We have, in short, somehow become convinced that we need to tackle the whole problem, all at once. But the truth is that we don't. We only need to find the stickiness Tipping Points

capitalization learning": we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given.

all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point

Greenberg] knew that cultural legacies matter--that they are powerful and pervasive and that they persist, long after their original usefulness has passed. But he didn't assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are. He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change.

I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing that fits the contours of his or her imagination. Obsessives lead us astray sometimes. Can't see the bigger picture. Serve not just the world's but also their own narrow interests. But I don't think we get progress or innovation or joy or beauty without obsessives.

The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually "developed late," since he didn't produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years.

learn better skills; and the next year, because they are in the higher groups, they do even better; and the next year, the same thing happens, and they do even better again. The only country we don't see this going on is Denmark. They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

Proficimus more irretenti: "We make progress unhindered by custom.

That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers.