Quotes About Progress

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

The Heath brothers stressed that, counterintuitively, big problems 'are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.' 'Shrink the change' became a kind of motto for me and my team, along with President Obama's version of the point: 'Better is good' (p. 517).

Whenever my own thoughts about the state of the world headed toward a similarly bleak impasse, I would brainstorm with my team about how we might 'shrink the change' we hoped to see (p. 517).

DüÅŸünüyordum kendime kendime: Tam bir çekirdekle eksik bir aÄŸaç aras?ndaki fark, tam çekirdeÄŸin ç?kmaza girdiÄŸi ve deÄŸiÅŸmediÄŸi takdirde çürüyeceÄŸi, eksik aÄŸac?n ise önünde çok parlak bir geleceÄŸi olduÄŸuydu

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." -Bruce Lee

Sometimes you gotta fail in order to succeed

What a glorious morning for America!

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

No way in, go in, measure.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Worstward Ho!)

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is a long process of getting tired.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

The course of true anything does not run smooth.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death. What we call death is only a shock great enough to destroy our power to recognize a past and a present as resembling one another.

Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.

Embryo minds, like embryo bodies, pass through a number of strange metamorphoses before they adopt their final shape.