Quotes About Progress

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

Tight-lipped, guided by reasons only, Cautiously let us step into the era of the unchained fire.

Theology is like rowing a boat. You can only move forward when you are looking backwards.

Every year somebody invents something new — some new devilish machine to make our lives a burden

But is it?' Guthrie says, waving his hands in the effort to explain. 'We're living in the twentieth century, of course, but are they?

If there's no future in what you're doing you should cut your losses and try another line.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

There are no problems, only challenges. - Uncle Press

Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.

My life has been defined by a series of failures.

Getting here had become part of what being here meant.

As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

The best work we can ever do in this world is work on being the greatest version of ourselves so we can continue to give the highest version of this to others.

There's a misconception that Lyft is just a better version of the taxi. You know, I think that's just scratching the surface of what we're doing.

I just want to be the best version of me.

I'm always trying to find ways to evolve. Evolution, for me, is a very spiritual thing, getting closer to the creator, closer to God, and becoming a better version of yourself.