Quotes About Progress

No son las especies más fuertes ni las más inteligentes las que sobreviven, sino las que saben dar una respuesta mejor al cambio. CHARLES DARWIN

The challenge is to always improve, to always get better, even when you are the best. Especially when you are the best.

If you're not growing anywhere, you're not going anywhere.

El desafío consiste en mejorar siempre, en avanzar siempre, incluso cuando eres el mejor Especialmente cuando eres el mejor.

The challenge is to always improve, to always get better, even when you are the best. Especially when you are the best. Henry

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence,' wrote Tom Peters in Thriving on Chaos, 'only in constant improvement and constant change.

I want out of the freak show and into the main tent.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?" Arron Altman Broadcast News 1987

I feel like I'm slipping but do people who are actually slipping feel that way or is it always the really good people who are moving up who invariably think they're slipping because their standards are so high?

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

Time is a Colossus, and he's marching up Broadway!

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Make your feet your friend.

You can't be just against communism; you've got to be for something.

Teamwork: What did you do today to lend a hand to a colleague? Respect: What did you do today to acknowledge the work of one of your colleagues? Learning: What's one mistake you made in the last week, and what did you learn from it? Continuous improvement: What have you done in the past week to improve so that you're better this week than last? Customer focus: What is one change you made in the last week that came from a customer suggestion?

How did you do it?" we asked Don. "How did you make it to the top of Mount Rainier on one leg?" "One hop at a time," he said.