Quotes About Progress

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

The reason companies lose relevance, go broke, or fade into the sunset is because they continue to grow, but fail to evolve.

The Ultimate Blueprint

Lesson: One of the biggest reasons businesses fail is they never have a second idea. If you stop innovating, you die.

You had three books, now you have four. This is how libraries are built, book by book, until they are burned again. Other books will arrive from across the sea for this is not the first burning. The library has burned before, it will burn again and be rebuilt. Book by book

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to make new mistakes. And those who only learn selected lessons from history are doomed to do both.

The trick is to recognize the flaw in yourself and work to correct it.

Il mondo ci dice ciò che abbiamo bisogno di sapere nel momento in cui siamo pronti a saperlo, e non prima. Questa è la via delle cose

If you do not have a defined process that moves your people forward so the can achieve greater results, then what is it you are managing?

I ask managers, "What exactly is it you manage?" Although they say manage people, the truth is that managers today spend most of their time managing processes, projects, data, problems and information. If you don't have a defined process that moves your people forward so they can achieve GREATER RESULTS, then what is it you are managing? You're managing the status quo.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seems the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Anything that humanity does from here on out is a wave at the band as we leave the dance floor.

Death, Randa thought, elevated people.

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!

History is coming for the empire.

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconceivable figure.

what is needed in Russia is moral reform, and until that happens, Russia will not change.

Make good or make tracks.

You can't tell a horse's gait till she's broke.