Quotes About Progress

Leaders with it do more than just think of new ideas; they actually do the new ideas.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. But you can't make both.

In ten years, we will each look in the mirror, and someone will stare back. That person will be shaped by the thoughts of today.

You can now say the word shit on television." "Even broadcast television?" "There is no more broadcast television, Boss." I thought about the TV set back at my cabin that I hadn't turned on in a long while. "I wondered why mine had stopped working.

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

The jery, impeded walk of a man stuck in a turnstile, admitted, and stuck in a turnstile, admitted, and stuck in a turnstile. He said it was rheumatoid arthritis. It looked as likely to be cancer of the prostrate metastatising to his hips.

I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I'm a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries.

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

Oprah Winfrey said in a Harvard commencement speech in 2013, "There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

In the 1920s, a tech engineer's "half-life of knowledge" was thirty-five years; in the 1960s, it was a decade; and today it is five years at most.

In Shakespeare's time only about .8 percent of the world's population could speak English; today about 20 percent can. Shakespeare was lucky: a rising tide lifted his posthumous boat.

Edison said, "Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure."35

Washing machines, vacuums, drills, pumps, and electric fans, among other things, are still powered by Tesla's perambulatory insight.

They experience a 'divine discontent,' as Jeff Bezos called it," between what is and what might be—and they act.

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?

Okay, you guys, look up here. Omar did something good readers do.

Hmm. I wonder if you got stuck somewhere in the last twenty pages, because you're the first one to complain that this book is boring. What's the last part you remember?

A child learns by growing, an adult learns to grow.

Remember: the past was left behind, the present is a choice and the future is never certain.

There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created

I stopped moving backwards, trying to recapture the past, there might be a future waiting for me, waiting for us, a future that would reveal itself if only I turned around and looked, and that once I did, I could start to move toward it.