Quotes About Progress

She had changed the arc of her own story, merely by typing a couple of thousand words each day for thirty days.

One faces the future with one's past. —Pearl S. Buck

One faces the future with one's past.

The Rusties had more than one dream ..... After the first crude city killers were invented... they were redesigned to send people into space. Death and hope in one machine

But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along! Tally laughed. So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.

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Time makes us pointless.

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.

Whether… civilization has most promoted or most injured the general happiness of man is a question that may be strongly contested," he wrote in 1795. "[Both] the most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized.

Whether… civilization has most promoted or most injured the general happiness of man is a question that may be strongly contested," he wrote in 1795. "[Both] the most affluent and the most miserable of the human race are to be found in the countries that are called civilized." When

All new markets are inefficient at first

air hostesses, who, until the 1950s, had to be unmarried white women under the age of thirty-five.

How was your day? If your answer was fine, then I don't think you were leading.

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for dead end ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal. The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

Stick with the Dips that are likely to pan out, and quit the Cul-de-Sacs to focus your resources

Your job isn't to do your job. Your job is to decide what to do next.

The only choice we have is to begin. And the only place to begin is where we are. Simply begin. But begin.