Quotes About Progress

If you persist in identifying with current or prior performance by constantly thinking and talking about it, then where you have been, where you are, and where you are going will all be one and the same

from where you are now to where you really want to be in life. Just as professional and Olympic athletes have coaches, I want to be your success coach, your trainer for life. My passion is to help you become a world-class human being, someone who pulls out all the stops in each area of life. Success Is Not an Accident is not a book about living the way most people live. You don't need a book to do that; it happens by default. If you live your life like most people do, you will get what

goals are important to you and how you are going to accomplish them—the action plan! So before attempting to create your own self-talk, invest the time and mental effort, as

where you are or where you've been. Remember,

At the time of my initial writing, I had been coaching successful

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What does success mean to you? Answering this question is one of the first assignments I give my coaching clients in

Not all speed is movement.

The story doesn't end at the last chapter. Here lives new beginnings and endless opportunities.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

I mean, what happens is, wherever you go anywhere in the world, and leaders start talking to each other you get into a competition as to who's politics is crazy. I always say to people I think we're ahead, but you know it's a lot of people are competing to catch up with us.

The world is moving so fast, if you get stuck on what I call the sort of hard shoulder of nostalgia, the world is just going to pass you by.

Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

The way I saw it, people are like leaves that have fallen into a swift-moving stream. As the leaves get carried downstream, some are caught in rocks and never get any farther. Some are swept to shore. Others - the lucky ones - keep going, missing the stones, staying clear of the shore, staying afloat until they reach the river delta and break free into open water.

Shortly, some pipeline worker or shipfitter would slow down.

A musical revolution so long in coming was finally on the march.

History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak—its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing.

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