Quotes About Progress

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different," said Dieter Rams.[

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

Always make your future bigger than your past.

If greatness is your goal, it can only be achieved today.

If we were having this discussion three years from today, and you were looking back over those three years, what has to have happened in your life, both personally and professionally, for you to feel happy with your progress? Specifically, what dangers do you have now that need to be eliminated, what opportunities need to be captured, and what strengths need to be maximized?

Three great obstacles to progress: guilt, envy, and resentment.

You have an ideal in your mind, and you're measuring yourself against your ideal, rather than against the actual progress you've made. This is why you're unhappy with what you've done, and it's probably why you're unhappy with everything in your life.

Personal confidence comes from making progress toward goals that are far bigger than your present capabilities.

Looking back over the past quarter, what are the things you have achieved that make you the proudest? What are the current areas of focus and progress that make you the most confident? Looking ahead at the next quarter, what new developments, projects, or goals are giving you the greatest sense of excitement? What are the five new "jumps" (progress) you can now achieve that will make your next 90 days a great quarter regardless of what else happens?

NoSQL databases emerged from unmet needs.

If we were having this discussion three years from today, and you were looking back over those three years, what has to have happened in your life, both personally and professionally, for you to feel happy with your progress?

I don't think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness

Success means that you're making bigger and better improvements that are valuable to others and satisfying to yourself. It means that you can't think of anything you'd rather be doing than what you're doing.

When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates." —Pearson's Law

Practice mental subtraction to remind yourself of the GAINS in your life. Create a GAIN Tiny Habit Recipe for getting out of the GAP, such as the five-minute rule the women's soccer coach used.

Author Bill Bryson has this to say about our national obsession with shopping-- 'We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

Trains tap into some deep American collective memory.

But success, she was beginning to realize, was not as much a destination as an endless freeway clogged with hazards.

Enlightenment (or not) is an evolutionary process

Yet somehow living as a 1912 woman or as an 1860 woman involved being on Facebook a lot.

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Everything change with mine, Katya.