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Quotes About Progress

The reality is if a strategy or tactic is working now, the odds are high that it won't work in the future. There is just too much change taking place in our world for it to be any other way.
~ John G. Miller
A goal, in itself, is an empty thing; all the virtue lies in the moving toward the goal.
~ John G. Neihardt
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
~ John Gall
GREAT ADVANCES DO NOT COME OUT OF SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE GREAT ADVANCES.
~ John Gall
IN ORDER TO REMAIN UNCHANGED, THE SYSTEM MUST CHANGE Specifically,
~ John Gall
success is largely a matter of Avoiding the Most Likely Ways to Fail[d. ], and since every Bug advances us significantly along that path, we may hearken back to the advice given in the Preface and urge the following Policy: CHERISH YOUR BUGS. STUDY THEM But
~ John Gall
A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE EVOLVED FROM A SIMPLE SYSTEM THAT WORKED. A
~ John Gall
Public opinion's always in advance of the law.
~ John Galsworthy
Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
~ John Galsworthy
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
~ John Galsworthy
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
~ John Galsworthy
Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.
~ John Gardiner
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
~ John Gardner
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
~ John Gaule
at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...
~ John Geddes
I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us...
~ John Geddes
don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going...
~ John Geddes A Familiar Rain
as the foot of the marble sink that was Jonathan's next destination. His sink. One of two.
~ John Gilstrap
And all that lay ahead of them was the future.
~ John Gilstrap
If nothing ended, then we'd all be stuck in the middle.
~ John Goode
Anyone who knows anything knows that almost nothing ever ends, and when it does, it rarely ever does so well.
~ John Goode
Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
~ John Green
The age is dull and mean. Men creep,Not walk.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier