Quotes About Progress

For many thousands of years, human beings have wondered and asked questions about the distant past and the remote future of our world. The fact that we continue to ask such questions does not distinguish us from our ancient ancestors. What does make us different is that for the first time in history we, as a species, are capable of producing real and credible answers to these questions. We are among the first to be witness of the Big Bang.

Despite the great deal of interest and speculation that the origin of our Universe has generated, science had little to say about in before a hundred or so years ago.

My competitive instincts flaring, I started shouting to get myself pumped up between the twenty-item sequences. Laugh if you like, but I actually began imitating the voice of a preacher. "Reach up to touch heaven! Reach now, brother Daniel!" And when I finally did reach and remain at 3-back for a couple sequences in a row—then was promoted to 4-back a single time—I sang out, "I have been to the mountaintop!" But progress was in fits and starts.

There's been a sea change in our ability to understand and treat Down syndrome," said Mobley. "There's just been an explosion of information. As recently as the year 2000, no drug company would possibly have thought about developing therapies for Down syndrome. I am now in contact with no less than four companies that are pursuing treatments.

Five years and 250 mice later, she concluded that the sixty-fifth attempt was her keeper, with the best combination of Down-like qualities, even including, incredibly, some of the distinctive facial characteristics associated with the disease, and the same slightly uncoordinated gait.

Los Angeles was built as a machine of transformation. it mirrors industrialism and the triumph of progress over recalcitrance. But progress is a mixed bill. It has easily brought as much sorrow as joy. We must try to remember that its greatest success is the tilling of raw materials into a dubious finished product.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

It's no longer the big fish eating the small fish—it's the fast fish eating the slow fish.

You can't win the race of fulfillment running on the track of achievement.

The uncertainty and lack of clarity about the potential outcome is the root of the problem. I provide clarity by asking a simple question, "Out of all these tasks you do every day, how many of these tasks are moving you toward the outcome you want?

You tell them that you're doing this not because you want to save money on office space but because this is how their generation likes to work.

Have you transformed the way you innovate?" was Benioff's big line at the 2012 Dreamforce show. Note that you can switch the two buzzwords in the sentence and it still sounds good and still means nothing.

One day, Aaron Levie, the twenty-six-year-old CEO of Box, a well-funded new tech company, tells me it's really important to learn from what happened in the 1990s—which is why he has read a bunch of books about that era.

We can't just fix the workplace. We need to fix capitalism itself—and not just by making a few small tweaks at the edges. The whole system needs a major, fundamental reboot.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

every problem brings with it the seed of a solution

Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination." —Dan Miller

Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action—which then inevitably meets with opportunity. Don't get stuck along the way." —Dan Miller

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." —Oliver Wendell Holmes