Quotes About Progress

Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.

African Americans must spiritually survive from the meager basket of a few mean yesterdays. No chance for significant group progress there. None. For we have been largely overwhelmed by a majority culture that wronged us dramatically, emptied our memories, undermined our self-esteem, implanted us with palatable voices, and stripped us along the way of the sheerest corona of self-definition.

Most behavior is in pursuit of a goal. Some efforts are attempts to get something, others to escape or prevent something. Either way, an individual is usually trying to make progress toward some goal. High and low moods are aroused by situations that arise during goal pursuit. What situations? A generic but useful answer is: high and low moods were shaped to cope with propitious and unpropitious situations .

Therapists have long known that may depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.

WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, the journey is the reward.

Apprentices work furiously to learn the rules; journeymen proudly perfect the rules; but masters forget the rules.

If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

My coach knew there was only one way to develop (self esteem): You give children something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential." The Last Lecture

Not everything has to be fixed.

self-steam ? He knew there was really one way to teach kids how to develop it : You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they can do it, and you keep repeating the process.

When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved.

Cuando cometes errores y nadie te lo indica, significa que ya se han dado por vencidos contigo.

El que ha fracasado sabe cómo evitar futuros fracasos.

Failure is not just acceptable, it's essential.

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential

But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

In the end, educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse? Some