Quotes About Progress

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

it occurred to him that time didn't move forward as he'd always thought. People move through time instead.

It's mistakes that make us who we are.

Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we're doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we're all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we've done something we consider wrong, we're still on our path to enlightenment.

Don't be concerned if you haven't been aware of these natural laws before. Once you begin to incorporate a philosophy into your life that is in accordance with Universal law, your life will bring you such joy, that you'll laugh in amazement. It will be as if you've spent your life driving a car in reverse and you've sudenly discovered that there are gears to make it go forward - and fast!

know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.' — Albert Einstein

Agile processes of all kinds share one thing: they embrace change, approaching it as an opportunity for growth, rather than an obstacle.

What tasks I've completed since the last daily scrum. What tasks I expect to complete by the next daily scrum. What obstacles are slowing me down.

anyone who has worked on an enterprise-scale software project knows that the only thing you can count on is change.

Working software is the primary measure of progress.

On average, human brains have shrunk some 10 percent in size over the last 20,000 years,

Every city began as a campsite

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

the major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than the goal you achieve.

Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point.

Consider this: on average, new companies that reach Fortune 500 scale today are doing so more than two times faster than just two decades ago, and the fastest—the world record holders for scaling—are exceeding prior records by a wide margin.

The happy times of pristine thinking and open minds, always favorable for beginnings, belonged now to the past, and we knew it.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth.