Quotes About Progress

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.

Even when you're at the top, there's always something higher,

Curiosity is the fuel that powers the engine of human advancement

If they could redirect the energy they'd spent on trying to find fault with the other side and put it toward finding a new direction that worked for everyone, they could all benefit.

Scientists don't make decisions based on potential profit. What a scientist must consider foremost is which of the many available paths will lead to the greatest benefit for humanity. Even if said path, doesn't result in any personal gain, it's still the one to pick. Of course, ideally, we hope that the most beneficial path also results in personal gain.

If you don't test your limits, they get harder to reach.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

If a person is riding at all he is already doing more right than wrong. The job is to add to those correct actions and drop the incorrect. Do you do this? You

To do that you have to know exactly what was done, not what wasn't. You didn't do a lot of things on that last lap

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." —Alvin Toffler I

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." —Winston Churchill Changes

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.

Samuel Beckett wrote, "Fail, fail again. Fail better.

1) create a company-approved project that will force you to learn new skills and introduce you to new people within your company; (2) take on leadership positions in the hobbies and outside organizations that interest you; (3) join your local alumni club and spend time with people who are doing the jobs you'd like to be doing; (4) enroll in a class at a community college on a subject that relates to either the job you're doing now or a job you see yourself doing in the future.

The future is dynamic and not fully in your control. Celebrate that fact instead of fighting it, and life gets a lot more interesting.

Creativity in business is often nothing more than making connections that everyone else has almost thought of. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do.

The most exciting breakthrough of the twenty-first century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human," said the futurist John Naisbitt.

Wherever you are in life right now, and whatever you know, is a result of the ideas, experiences, and people you have interacted with in your life

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain.

Nothing is an end because it always can be a basis for something new and different.

Risks are what make the difference between new ideas and re-worked old ideas.

As in all things: Time will clarify the events that are presently unclear.