Quotes About Progress

Dear Admiral Rickover, If you want to stop killing people, read this. Very respectfully, Dave Oliver Captain, US Navy

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

I finally realized that results are generated by activities. If I manage my activities then the results I want occur.

If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. You are where you are now financially as a sum total of the decisions you've made to this point.

Henry Ford, who definitely had more than enough, said, "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

The bridge between failure and success is hope. THOMAS JEFFERSON

Good to Great by my friend Jim Collins.

Life is not a snapshot, it's a filmstrip.

If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results. You are where you are right now financially as a sum total of the decisions you've made to this point.

Goals Must Have a Time Limit Goals without a time limit are unable to be broken down into micro goals to measure your progress, to observe your traction. You might say, "I want to write a book." Great, when? In twenty years? In twenty months? If you don't put a deadline on the goal it will never happen and you will get to eat the bitter fruit of regret.

Traction equals satisfaction

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

IF A MAJORITY IN EVERY CIVILIZED COUNTRY SO DESIRED, WE COULD, WITHIN 20 YEARS, ABOLISH ALL ABJECT POVERTY, QUITE HALF THE ILLNESS IN THE WORLD, THE WHOLE ECONOMIC SLAVERY WHICH BINDS DOWN NINE TENTHS OF OUR POPULATION; WE COULD FILL THE WORLD WITH BEAUTY AND JOY, AND SECURE THE REIGN OF UNIVERSAL PEACE.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

You've left things better than you found them, and that's pretty much all that anybody can hope for.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

David A. Adler

Ironically, the internal version number of Windows 7 is version 6.1,[1] which implies that Microsoft considers its newest operating system to be a (relatively) minor revision of Windows Vista (version 6.0).

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years of fighting." "In August of sixty-five, when I first got here, we had to travel up Highway

It's only hard until it becomes easy.

Journeys are regularly marked by an early exhilaration followed by a waning resolve to finish.

In fact, the reality of life is such that you never do get to the top. The climb is the goal. The top of the mountain is only the direction, not the destination