Quotes About Progress

Tomorrow's medicine is today's research. That is why the question of how we allocate resources to research is at least as important as the question of how we allocate resources to health care itself.

Sucking at something every once in a while is how you achieve greatness in the long run.

Erasers are your friends on the road to success.

How are you going to live your purpose if you don't face your fears? How are you going to get better if you don't get better?

sitting still" is just about the worst thing you can do. It's the new "going backward.

you truly want to make some serious changes in your life then you must start by raising your standards.

CANI for Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

you are either climbing or sliding or growing and dying.

One hundred years ago my great-grandfather thought women shouldn't vote. He was absolutely certain about that, and I'm absolute certain he was wrong. Two hundred years ago my great-great-great=great grandfather believed that white men should own black men. He was absolutely certain about that, and I am certain that he was wrong. I'm humble because I don't know what I'm wrong about today. I'll speak with confidence and I'll speak with passion, but I won't speak with certainty.

Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

It's the price of rootlessness. Motion sickness. The only cure: to keep moving.

This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

The past does not equal the future.

In a significant number of cases, people actually get worse at their jobs over time. "More

Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.

The Singularity is Coming

Will humanity survive?