Quotes About Progress

I'd like to paraphrase the Peter Principle. I think what actually happens is that "in every organization everyone rises to the level at which they become paralyzed with fear." The

If we condition ourselves to work without flow, it's more likely to arrive.

Lab assistants do what they're told. Scientists figure out what to do next.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck. So the question is: Have you ever done that?

We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws.

Moore's law is a law not of nature, but of human ingenuity.

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

I have witnessed the strength of our people driven from their own land. The tenacious march south is like a silent protest against death. In this tidal wave of men and woman a hatred mingles with hope. And this furious force of will that has infected me too will carry me to the very end of my own lonely progress.

Zane gestured to the table. Did you see what I brun-brought? She shook her head, turning back to the papers. I've read these. Not that one. Nipped it from The Spotted Dog. Last week's news, but I thought you'd like the bottom-right bit. At least your reading is coming along. An' I washed my face last Sunday, he said virtuously. -Zane & Rue

To her, the journey was as important as the destination.

Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

Many of Ronald A. Fisher's ideas were solutions to computational problems caused by the limitations of the era's desk calculators.

She told how the fear had slipped away through the year, 'slipped away silently and secretly', and how we mustn't be afraid to try new things.

But I am glad you are my teacher again. I hope you will keep moving up a grade every year along with me.

Remember the acorn. Even when you don't see it growing, it's pushing past the dirt. Reaching for the sun. Growing stronger.

Just because something has always been done a certain way does not make it right.

Mayhap not, but a king ought to be far-sighted enough to realize that if reforms are inevitable, better he be the one to carry them out.

An error. Another error. Yet, in his experience, refusal to acknowledge an error did not reset circumstance to an error-free state.

She tried to clear her mind. She knew she needed to return to the war, already in progress.

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Albert Einstein goes, "The problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

I need to start over. I can't just stay stuck in this place." This is a wonderful skill to bring to your life.