Quotes About Progress

That cliché you ignored like a throwaway fortune cookie? Suddenly it makes sense and moves mountains. Conversely, things you initially found enlightening might run their course, like a wonderful high school coach who needs to hand you off to a college coach for you to reach the next level.

Cuando algo es verdaderamente rompedor, el día previo era una idea descabellada.

también, si te permite poner en práctica una capacidad que hayas desarrollado.»

Do you understand it?" "Do you think they'll be dominant and growing 3 years from now?" "Do you think this technology will be more or less a part of our lives in 3 years?

John Dewey's dictum that "a problem well put is half-solved

no puedes medirlo, no puedes mejorarlo.

If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, you must go together.

Look for a partner you'll try to impress daily, and one who will try to impress you." Over the last couple decades, I've noticed that the best, most enduring partnerships in business (and in life) are among people who are constantly growing together. If the person you choose to depend on is constantly striving to learn and improve, you too will push yourself to new levels of achievement, and neither of you will feel like you have settled for someone you eventually outgrow.

A lot of professions assume that you're going to take eight to ten years just to achieve the minimum level of competence necessary to start to practice. That's been a good grounding force when doing projects, because a lot of things go wrong here and there, but if you just assume that anything worthwhile is going to take five to ten years, they don't feel as severe.

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential." Kristen Ulmer

But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don't have to wait to start something. So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?

eustrés: estrés sano que constituye un estímulo para crecer.

El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable persiste en intentar adaptar el mundo a él. Por consiguiente, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable.»

No aceptes las normas de tu tiempo

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems . . . there's no law of physics preventing them." –Michio Kaku Physicist and co-founder of string field theory

If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

No idea is so big that you can't take the first step. If the first step seems too hard, make it simpler. And don't worry again if the idea is bad. This is all practice.

Naval Ravikant (page 546) regularly credits Scott's short blog post "The Day You Became a Better Writer" for improving his writing.

Like everything, there's a pain period when you step out of your comfort zone. And just when it seems toughest, and you most want to give up (because it's too much time/work/energy, because you don't understand it, because you don't trust it), if you push through that moment, immediately afterward you break free and it becomes a habit that you feel you've been doing all your life (and know you should have been doing all your life).

Je?li kto? nie sprawia, ?e stajesz si? lepszy, tak naprawd? sprawia, ?e stajesz si? gorszy.

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. —INGVAR KAMPRAD, founder of IKEA,

Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself.

As Pico Iyer pointed out, the act of quitting "means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn't agree with you, but because you don't agree with something. It's not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one's journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting—whether a job or a habit—means taking a turn so as to be sure you're still moving in the direction of your dreams.