Quotes About Progress

Take life one day at a time, and make each day better than the last.

Mark Sanborn

Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves.

The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

For a century, Edison's light bulb was regarded as a beacon of American genius; then it became a 'climate criminal. That transformation is American decline in a nutshell.

No Islamic nation could have flown to the moon or invented the Internet, simply because for a millennium the culture has suppressed the curiosity necessary for such a venture.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Giacometti said, "The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.

original work fashions a form the true shape of which it discovers only as it proceeds, so the early strokes are useless, however fine their sheen. Only when a paragraph's role in the context of the whole work is clear can the envisioning writer direct its complexity of detail to strengthen the work's ends.

I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it looks at its feet, it realizes its operating in midair.

Most humans who were ever alive lived inside a single culture that had not changed for hundreds of thousands of years.

We are civilized generation number 500 or so, counting from 10,000 years ago when we settled down. We are Homo sapiens generation number 7,500, counting from 150,000 years ago when our species presumably arose. And we are human generation number 125,000, counting from the earliest Homo species. Yet how can we see ourselves as only a short-term replacement cast for a long-running show, when a new batch of birds flies around singing, and new clouds move?

It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away.

Uno y otro deben estar aprendiendo hasta

The best of liberalism is too good to be left to the liberals

The great metanarrative of progress and conquest has run aground on the shoals of environmental concern and a loss of confidence in science and technology as reliable sources of our salvation. Instead of a single unifying story or grand narrative, postmodernity sees a world of many stories.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

Without new ideas success can become stale.

Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.

I learned to recognize failure.

There is nothing cool about "used to be cool.