Quotes About Progress

So here we are, traveling along faster than anyone before the 1900's ever traveled (unless they were falling off a cliff), dodging giant, high-momentum steel missiles, judging the intent of their operators with a fantastic accuracy, and then saying we can't predict human behavior.

The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.

It was already evident to the French and other Europeans that Britain was gaining an industrial lead in the first half of the eighteenth century.There was, for example, the newly acquired technique of smelting iron with purified coal or `coke' instead of charcoal, a fuel which was becoming prohibitively expensive. There were processes for the preparation of raw wool which were trade secrets and much sought after, as were some of the arcane skills of watchmakers.

How am I getting in my own way?

It is at first a delicate tightrope walk, which then gets easier as you master the skills required to keep your balance in the new environment. Fortunately, there are shortcuts

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. —John Wooden

The temptation is strong to remain in the Zone of Excellence; it's where your own addiction to comfort wants you to stay.

Look beyond the worry-thoughts, and you will often find a new direction that's being laid out for you.

The goal of intervention is to use their strengths to learn what they need to know next to benefit fully from classroom instruction.

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

Perhaps part of the problem, he thought, was that the world was changing faster than people were able to change themselves, and the leaders in government and the press were being guided by theories and assumptions that had once worked but were now outmoded.

The significance of things can only evolve in time.Nothing is what it is until it becomes what it must become

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

We were all forged in the crucible.

That's all we can do, Brit. Take steps. Take enough of them and suddenly, you're somewhere.

A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.

Es sólo un día, un periodo de veinticuatro horas para superarte a ti mismo -Adam

because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly

Pero si voy a sobrevivir, no puedo nunca, jamás volver a repasar este día.

Entonces, dice—. ¿Haces eso a menudo? ¿Seguir adelante? —Quizás. Pero sólo porque viajo mucho. Golpetea con ritmo en el volante, audible sólo para ella. —O quizás viajas mucho porque te permite seguir adelante.

When you're on the road, there is awlays the promise of the next stop being better than the last

want you to get on with your life.