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Quotes About Progress

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
~ Bruce Mau
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
~ Frank Wilczek
The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.
~ George Whitefield
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
~ Dean Kamen
We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.
~ Chanda Kochhar
My favorite project is always the next one.
~ Michael Graves
Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
~ Thomas A. Edison
Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.
~ Philip Kotler
A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
Strengthen in us, O God, the work You have begun in us.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.
~ Paul Polman
This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We're all a work in progress as men and you still love us and I thank you so much for embracing us.
~ Kevin Durant
I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.
~ George MacDonald
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
~ Roger von Oech
I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
~ Waylon Jennings
It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward.
~ Scott Walker
But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.
~ Bulent Ecevit
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
~ Edward Teller
Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.
~ Morena Baccarin
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.
~ Wilfred Trotter
Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.
~ Henry Ford
It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.
~ Barack Obama