Quotes About Progress

The next season, the scouts found a still better iceberg, larger and with richer fishing grounds. And though it was tempting to declare that the colony had been subjected to enough change, and should stay forever on their new home, they didn't. They moved again. It was a critical step: not becoming complacent again and not letting up.

There was always some tension between those who thought their role was to keep things in order and those who were urgent about producing necessary changes. But most penguins intuitively understood that you needed both to thrive in this new era.

The need to adapt is nothing new; after all, Benjamin Franklin said, "When you are finished changing, you are finished." What is new is how often we need to change, the pace at which we need to move, and the complexity and volatility of the context in which we are operating.

Create a Sense of Urgency.

Produce Short-Term Wins.

John P. Kotter

Acceleration stalled

transformation is a process, not an event

If you cannot describe your vision to someone in five minutes and get their interest, you have more work to do in this phase of a transformation process.

Whenever smart and well-intentioned people avoid confronting obstacles, they disempower employees and undermine change.

Without short-term wins, too many employees give up or actively join the resistance. Creating

reducing complacency and increasing urgency they had taken exactly the right first step in potentially saving the colony.

Tradition dies a hard death. Culture changes with as much difficulty in penguin colonies as in human colonies. But with this colony, culture did change.

I guarantee that tomorrow there will be something that will happen, that has never happened before. That is something to look forward too. And the best part of tomorrow is that there is another one just a day later.

It seems like it has been forever. But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn't even started yet.

When you decide that you are going to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, sometime during your seemingly infinite journey the weathervane will just change direction and the new winds of positive change will blow at your back instead of into your face and things will just get easier and you will start to see progress right out of the blue. When that day happens you will know that it is just a matter of time. And time is what I have.

Q: Does it get easier? A: No, you just get better at it.

I know the answer to improving Jess's condition doesn't lay in tears the answer is in sweat.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

We live in a 'two-hundred-year present'.

We commit ourselves to the journey toward reconciliation because we believe it is right-even when we are not sure, as John Paul says, how it will progress or end. We believe that walking down the path to peace offers a way better than violence and an instrument more powerful than force to conduct the affairs of humankind. We pray that others will join us. -Harold

To survive, a technology must prove useful. In fact, it must prove more than useful; it must meet perceived needs in a manner that existing technologies don't as well as build a base of adherents who provide a monetary reason to continue investing in the technology.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Let your life proceed by its own design.