Quotes About Progress

You can only look forward in life. You can change the future, but not the past.

The bumps in the road have a funny way of turning into stepping stones

In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us. You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

Just a tick past fruition sits decay.

You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

Everything ends. The natural order of things is immutable. Seed, flower, fruit, decline, death, decay. Seed. Each stage has its own drama and its own particular beauty. If you can see it, you can accept it. The parts are graceful, and so is the whole.

We didn't need a new house after all. When something isn't working, you don't always need to tear down the whole structure. Sometimes you just pull down a wall, reinvent, put some new skin on the old bones. And it's lovely.

The mind is reluctant to embrace deep change, and will play devious games to maintain the status quo.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

Personal growth isn't about beating yourself up, it's about celebrating your ability to refine and enhance yourself, and increase your personal development through awareness.

But the past determines who we are, and it has led to this sartling future.

Come on, man. You can't always be looking over your shoulder, you know? At the good stuff or the bad stuff. You got to look ahead, or else you miss the good stuff that's still coming.

the choice isn't between automation and non-automation," says Erik Brynjolfsson, one of the MIT economists focused on digital technology and work. "It's between whether you use the technology in a way that creates shared prosperity, or more concentration of wealth.

From the 1940s through the '70s—when our richest citizens were paying rates of 70 and 80 and 90 percent on the millionth dollars they earned each year—U.S. productivity and GDP per person and median household income after inflation all doubled.

No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

It strikes me that the only real reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Wo kämen wir hin, wenn jeder sagte, wo kämen wir hin und keiner ginge, um zu sehen, wohin wir kämen, wenn wir gingen.

Laß dir von keinem Fachmann imponieren, der dir erzählt: "Lieber Freund, das mache ich schon seit zwanzig Jahren so!"—Man kann eine Sache auch zwanzig Jahre lang falsch machen.

Menschen haben immer Menschen gequält, heute sieht das nur anders aus.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

All that is good and accomplished in this world takes work and a little chaos.