Quotes About Progress

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead. That's how people avoid getting hit by cars.

Y sin embargo todo aquello todavía no era la locura, y si lo era, se estaba apenas anunciando.

Mi miedo es un animal en crecimiento que exige alimentación y que se va tragando todo.

And Jaime would say, "I am getting ready for my next beginning.

A man, even a man like Charlie Valentine, had limited room for memories, and the new ones kept kicking the old ones out, the way slang replaces the proper names for this or for that, cheapening the nouns and verbs until they were barely recognizable.

The way you learn to ride is by riding.

Corn can add inches in a single day; if you listened, you could hear it grow.

You can succeed in the future only by facing today's challenges head-on, reframing them as opportunities, and taking advantage of them.

Modern companies live and die based on how quickly they can face, embrace, and absorb change.

Forge ahead despite your pain and give meaning to your loss.

the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

Productivity, we are discovering, is a function of joy. Joy comes not from free M&Ms, but from making progress toward goals that matter to you.

Am I making progress toward things that are important to me?

I define "work" as activities that are advancing you toward the career and life you want. If they aren't, then they are not work. This is true even if they appear on your work calendar or you've always done them

Constantly minding time is more challenging than letting it slip unnoticed into the past. It is also never done.

el poder de los pequeños logros", que es precisamente lo que obtienes cuando organizas con base en las tareas.

poder de los pequeños logros", que es precisamente lo que obtienes cuando organizas con base en las tareas.

Your turn THREE TIMES A WEEK IS A HABIT Planning questions: List some activities you'd like to do more frequently in your life. Choose one specific activity to focus on for the next week. When did you last do this activity?

When it comes to time, the perfect is a disarmingly subversive enemy of the good.

Harsh as this sounds, if you're not in the right job—a job that is moving you toward where you want to be in life—then you're wasting almost all the time you're spending at work.

madness. Before the rest of the world is eating breakfast, the most successful people have already scored daily victories that are advancing them toward the lives they want.

Despite the usual reputation of self-help, the truth is that most self-help readers already have their lives together. People pick up books on time management because their lives are good, and yet they can see in that goodness that there is space for even more wonder.

Any "work" that is not advancing you toward the professional life you want should not count as work. It is wasted time.