Quotes About Progress

Train your brain to gain.

Even if one has progressed far in divine things, one is never nearer the truth than when one understands that those things still remain to be discovered. He who believes he has attained the goal, far from finding what he seeks, falls by the wayside.

The sorrow bird: We've gone too far. I'm afraid we can't go back. Hoopoe: Back?... There's a circle, bird. Why, just think of the phoenix. He lives alone for more than a thousand years acquiring great wisdom and when it's his time to go, he gathers leaves around himself, spreads his wings, and starts a fire - a new phoenix is born from his ashes. We're going forward, bird!

Perhaps you would like to start running. You never have tried before, or you did and you hated it, and now you wonder how to begin moving in a way that will keep you going. Get up. Start. Go. Move. Take a rusty first step, like the Tin Man. You will squeak. Go.

Be willing to tolerate the discomfort necessary for growth.

death is a necessary prelude to resurrection. To bear long-term fruit for Christ, we need to recognize that some things must die so something new can grow.

Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

Pain has an amazing ability to open us to new truth and to get us moving.

Whenever I feel discouraged in my own progress, I remember what one Trappist monk said to me as he reflected on his sixty years of life dedicated to prayer, "I am only a beginner.

You would think the church and its leaders would be all for healthy leadership and whatever it takes to achieve it. But the truth is that there are parts of church leadership culture that actually work hard against it.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing."6

Techno was invented in Berlin

Ironically, as a result of his move to the country, Cosell- one of the fathers of the Internet-now has only dial-up access from his home.

the advantage of some ignorance; it leaves some room for creativity. But sometimes it feels like ignorance is endemic in this industry-that people are unaware of things and wheels are constantly being reinvented with pointy corners.

Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.

As your confidence in the API increases, then you flesh it out. But the fundamental rule is, write the code that uses the API before you write the code that implements it.

Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.

You don't get credit because the program works. We're going to the next level. Working programs are a given,

The Web is broken and we need to fix it.

nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways to automatically analyze code, coming up with better ways for programmers to work together, or finding (or designing) better programming languages.

Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. So how much time we're wasting in interpreting stuff really matters there. The cycles count.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

Play your first 100 games quickly" is an old proverb that stresses the relative unimportance of victory and defeat while you are learning how to play the game.