Quotes About Progress

Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter.

Wherever there is success, there has to be failure.

Don't find fault, find a remedy. —Henry Ford

leaders who do undertake a voyage of personal understanding and development can transform not only their own capabilities but also those of their companies.

In South Africa in the early 1990s, a joke was making the rounds: Given the country's daunting challenges, people had two options, one practical and the other miraculous. The practical option was for everyone to pray for a band of angels to come down from heaven and fix things. The miraculous option was for people to talk with one another until they could find a way forward.

Twelve Step programs counsel "Look back, but don't stare." Wonder why? Because it's fucking painful!

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

Geçmi?in ac? gerçekleriyle yüzle?meden, hesapla?madan gelece?e nas?l ilerleyece?iz ki?

Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Disease is a process. Healing is a process.

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

To know where I'm going you must know where I've been!

The true way of progressing through music is to evolve freely, to go forward, not caring what others think, and in this way, together with one's development in music, to harmonize the life of one's soul, one's surroundings and one's affairs.