Quotes About Progress

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

Bugger this. I want a better world.

Biology is only the best hint as to what was functional in the past but not necessarily about what will be in the future. The most empowering question we can ask about the future is not "What is the future and how do we adapt?" but "How do we want our future to be and how do we adapt?

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it.What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. —Jim Rohn

If they offer something better, I will gladly learn. Francis David, no. 566

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

The words "I should have done this back then" are a curse. Whenever they come up, they tangle around your heart and keep you from moving. They bring up all the baggage you carry and dull your emotions. From this point on is a domain where your emotions can't be dull... "I want to get faster", "I want to beat him", "This is fun"... "I want to move forward". You need to have only pure feelings like that, if you want to reach that domain!

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.

You can't 'increment' yourself into the future.

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

The '62 Mets made 3 errors in their first game, 3 in their last game, and 204 more errors in between.

A leader's role is not to maintain. It is to gain altitude!

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

the greatest journeys of our lives begin so simply that we don't even know we've embarked on them until we're well down the road looking back.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

Sometimes the way forward is the way back.