Quotes About Progress

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Heads fall off from time to time Some of them old, some of them young The conductor hollers into the crowd: 'Keep moving forward to the back!

Think about your organization – or that of one of your clients – and ask yourself whether things would be done differently if it was being launched today.

No new world without a new language.

The ages of muscle and miracle — of fists and faith — are passing away.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." – Soren Kierkegaard

The way my heart hurt with hope for them as I watched them struggle with every step forward.

It was what it was. And I try to believe that we are who we become because of every single thing that happens to us. My goal is to keep heading for a better place.

There's living. And there's living in the past. I just really want to live. What good would it do for me to spend my time dwelling on something I can't change?

Every one of us has something in our lives that would hold us back if w let it," he said when he'd finished. "The key is to deal with it, then find a way around it.

When I was as old as these children, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them.

these four sciences, nanotechnology is now surfacing as the most significant. NANO simply refers

The effort is said to be only theoretical so far, but it is hard to think that pursuits in this direction have not already commenced here and there.

seems that our entire species has been totally preoccupied with measuring everything possible, and even of finding subtle and invisible things to take "the measure of." Measuring activity seems both a necessary and a good

ALL languages, is still a very young one.

Americans and the Soviets decided TO JOIN UP and attempt to erect not a Moonbase, but an Earth-orbiting Skylab.

same-sex marriage

IN THE EIGHTH DECADE of the twentieth century, a man named Elmer Pendell published a small book entitled WHY CIVILIZATIONS SELF-DESTRUCT (1977).

the difference between a strong and weakened civilization is its ratio of internal continuities and discontinuities – and when the latter increase so as to overwhelm the former, then zippo, the civilization collapses from within itself.

Surely something along these lines would have to do with their research and development of their OWN forms of consciousness – at least to the degree that such development has taken them, at the very least, somewhat beyond massively destroying themselves before they could achieve the status of being "advanced.

As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?