Quotes About Progress

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.

We may not understand the reason for it; indeed, we often cannot figure it out. Still, an incongruity is a symptom of an opportunity to innovate.

Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the "disorganizer," the creator of a different future and the enemy of today. In most industrial laboratories, "defensive research" aimed at perpetuating today, predominates.

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence

the best definition of "what our business is, will be, and should be," will remain a pious platitude. Energy will be used up in defending yesterday. No one will have the time, resources, or will to work on exploiting today, let alone to work on making tomorrow.

Success always makes obsolete the very behavior that achieved it. It always creates new realities. It always creates, above all, its own and different problems. Only the fairy tale ends, "They lived happily ever after.

At one point quantity turned into quality.

Abandon what is about to be obsolete, develop a system to exploit your successes, and develop a systematic approach to innovation.

In actual practice this distinction makes no sense whatever. An enterprise, whether a business or any other institution, that does not innovate and does not engage in entrepreneurship will not survive long.

If it were a decision today to start something you are already in (to enter a business, to hire a person, to institute a policy, to launch a project, etc.), would you? If not, then why do you persist?

Technology" does not necessarily mean "science and engineering." Techne, the Greek word from which "technology" derives, means, after all, "useful knowledge," or "organized skill," rather than "engineering.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

The aim of strategic planning is action now.

the Enlightenment has been held responsible for the evils of the modern age, and much scorn has been directed at its supposed superficial rationalism, foolish optimism, and irresponsible Utopianism.

The Enlightenment may be summoned up in two words: criticism and power.

And then I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.

I'm not good at this yet" and to take steps to change that.

First, it gets children into the habit of explaining successes and failures in terms of strategy use.

The most important piece is to confirm what has been successful (so it will be repeated) and simultaneously assert the learner's competence so she will have the confidence to consider new

Marie Clay (1993) refers to this as attending to the "partially correct." Its significance cannot be overstated.

Much more important is noticing—and helping the students notice—what they are doing well, particularly the leading edge of what is going well. This leading edge is where the student has reached beyond herself, stretching what she knows just beyond its limit, producing something that is partly correct. This is the launching pad for new learning.

Stephen summarizes, "It's when you look back and you learn how much you've grown and changed.

you get smarter the more you learn.

Para que algo suceda, algún suceso tiene que modificarse o algo que hasta el momento estaba inmóvil tiene que moverse.