Quotes About Progress

When your art fails, make better art.

in every organization everyone rises to the level at which they become paralyzed with fear.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

You become a winner because you're good at losing.

They say the best way to complain is to make things better.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.

Its never too late ...to start heading in the right direction.

Extraordinary benefits also accrue to the tiny majority with the guts to quit early and refocus their efforts on something new.

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don't stop.

If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that's all we're going to get. School can and must do more than train the factory workers of tomorrow.

There's not a lot to say about the Cul-de-Sac except to realize that it exists and to embrace the fact that when you find one, you need to get off it, fast. That's because a dead end is keeping you from doing something else. The opportunity cost of investing your life in something that's not going to get better is just too high.

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.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that's actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want to go faster than any other path.

It's foolish to expect that one exposure to your message will instantly convert someone from stranger to raving ideavirus-spreading fan. So plan on a process. Plan on a method that takes people from where they are to where you want them to go.

Going out of your way to find uncomfortable situations isn't natural, but it's essential.

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.

Don't be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.