Quotes About Progress

Believe me, most people resist change, even when it promises to be for the better. But change will come, and if you acknowledge this simple but indisputable fact of life, and understand that you must adjust to all change, then you will have a head start.

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Todos los grandes descubrimientos se hacen por error.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

When he fell behind as an innovator, he reinvented himself as an instructor.

See yourself relaxing in your humility, being yourself—and thus ready to jump to the second curve. But you still do have to jump.

It means a big life transition, and as we all know, transitions can be hard. So that's where we need to turn our attention next: making the jump.

Psychologists have a special word for uncomfortable life transitions: "liminality."[3] It means the time between work roles, organizations, career paths, and relationship stages.

Psychologists have a special word for uncomfortable life transitions: "liminality."[3] It means the time between work roles, organizations, career paths, and relationship stages. The author Bruce Feiler wrote a popular book in 2020 on liminality called Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age.[4]

What activities will you keep? What activities will you evolve and do differently? What activities will you let go of? What new activities will you learn? And to start . . . What will you commit to doing in the next week to evolve into the new you? What will you commit to doing in the next month? What will you commit to doing within six months? In a year, what will be the first fruits to appear as a result of your commitments?

Luther successfully jumped onto his second curve after he stopped adding and started chipping away. As he succinctly puts it, "I am loving my life.

You can say this, too, but you need to start chipping away

You can say this, too, but you need to start chipping away—managing your worldly wants—before more time passes.

Edmund Burke wrote, "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

To go from strength to strength requires learning a new set of life skills.

Allowing that change to happen and developing our inner life helps us get onto the second curve.

So what are you going to do about it? There are really only three doors you can go through here: 1. You can deny the facts and rage against decline—setting yourself up for frustration and disappointment. 2. You can shrug and give in to decline—and experience your aging as an unavoidable tragedy. 3. You can accept that what got you to this point won't work to get you into the future—that you need to build some new strengths and skills.

She doesn't live in the past. Many other stars have not fared so well.

These attachments must be chipped away to make it possible to jump onto the second curve.

The ideals of free enterprise and global leadership, central to American conservatism, are responsible for the greatest reduction in human misery since mankind began its long climb from the swamp to the stars.

Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.