Quotes About Progress

Life is a renovation project.

The amount of data in the world is doubling every few years, but our attention system, like the rest of the brain, was built to make sense of the surrounding environment as it existed ten thousand years ago.

Far from being hardwired, as scientists once envisioned it, the brain is constantly being rewired. I'm here to teach you how to be your own electrician.

This pattern of balancing between comfort and exploration of the unknown is how we build our brains

In fact, through deep history, through tens of thousands of years, everyone was a wild human. The very same forces that tamed wolves and made them dogs tamed humans. Call these forces civilization, and yes, obvious and abundant benefits came with the deal. We're not here to dispute those blessings. Our bedrock point has more to do with genes

Dense packages of storable starch allowed sedentary lives. That is, we no longer needed to range far and

In order to cope with anxiousness, for instance, you need to let certain well-worn paths grow over while you blaze alternate trails.

It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime's view? It weighed on him.

I'd skimmed along life like a surfer, mistaking speed for direction. I'd feigned to be pressing forward when I was really running away

Once you achieve a small dream and make a small success, it gives you confidence to go on the next step

After the Wall

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

The baseline level—that's where we stumble and fall, that's where we go through the motions. And that's where most of us live, most of the time. But the health of a society can be measured by how often and how meaningfully its people are able to reach that higher plane, to live lives bigger than they are.

Lo que era no es lo que soy, -se dijo, Y lo que soy no es aun lo que puedo ser

Un hombre sin pasado puede forjar cualquier futuro»

What I was, isn´t what I am. And what I am, isn´t yet what I can be.

In a way, he'd been triangulated, in much the same way one finds his location when lost in the woods. Three pillars: who he was, who he'd become, who he needed to be.

Quiero seguir siendo como soy, no como era».

Una cosa es enfrentarse con el pasado de uno mismo. Pero otra totalmente distinta es ver lo que ha sido, y lo que significa, y utilizarlo después para construir un futuro mejor.

Lo que era no es lo que soy —se dijo—. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.»