Quotes About Progress

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… And Others Don't

It's always helpful to learn from those who have already been Where you're about to go.

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Avoid checking up on whether someone did something the previous day. Team members will start feeling like they are being micromanaged. In general, looking forward is great management; looking backward is micromanagement.

In the meantime, if you're experiencing some drama, maybe a simple checklist will help.

Who, What, When (WWW): Improve the impact of your weekly meetings by taking a few minutes at the end and summarizing Who said they are going to do What, When.

Charles Darwin found that survival is determined by the ability to adapt to circumstances.

Got what you needed?" he asked over his shoulder. Not quite, but Rome wasn't built in a day.

Without questions there are no answers. And without answers no truth, no progress, no future.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever the omissions, the exceptions, or the faults - is the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Starting point: matter; goal: the soul. Hydra at the beginning, angel at the end.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

No army can stop an idea whose time has come

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.