Quotes About Progress

We often interrupt people at the beginner stage, forgetting that talent can take time.

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

The beginning of it starts at the end

Compliments make you weak because they can trick you into thinking you've finished your journey when the heels of your boots aren't even worn down yet. Praise is a song to the ears but an enemy of improvement.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

because organizing "anti" is easier than building "pro.

Mr. Watson—Come here" joined "What hath God wrought" in immortality

Try to imagine," one commentator observed, "the ambivalent anxieties of a freewheeling people with one foot in manure and the other in the telegraph office.

Later that evening, Alexander Graham Bell wrote to his father, "I feel that I have at last found the solution of a great problem and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water and gas is, and friends will converse with each other without leaving home.

That is more than 300 million times faster than the telegraph and 30 billion times faster than horseback.

On average it took 22 days for news to travel between New York City and Charleston; and 26 days to reach Savannah.

Bezos's Amazon e-reader broke 550 years of precedent by separating the act of publishing from putting ink on paper.

A few years ago I made a New Years Resolution never to make another New Years Resolution again and so far it's the only one that I have actually kept.

My plan is to live forever, so far so good.

New and Improved actually means that the Old Stuff actually Sucked!

Sometimes even destiny takes time.

The best thing about the future is that it starts tomorrow.

high confidence causes low competence, which in turn causes denial, until one faces the facts and confidence is lowered—then, progress may start.

if organizations want leaders to drive change, they would be well advised to hire moderate misfits rather than candidates who are a perfect fit for the current culture. A carbon copy of the rest of the team could perpetuate rather than disrupt the status quo. At the same time, hiring people who are radically different will rarely generate the desired change. More likely, these leaders would end up disrupting only themselves.

Now that they are called masters, [they] are ashamed again to become disciples.

Be not the first by whom the new is tried nor the last to set the old aside.

Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.

Dwelling on your problems doesn't fix them; it just makes you an expert at them.