Quotes About Progress

Libraries are what keep us a step ahead of the apes.

He told me patience was the most important thing when you wanted something. He told me not to rush, that rushing just got you nowhere faster.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

Then came the Industrial Revolution, first in Britain, then in Western Europe and North America. Men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories' growing demand for labor.

Eventually, capitalism transformed itself, and its gains began to be shared more widely.

Technological progress fostered industrial capitalism, but would eventually undermine it. Labor productivity in manufacturing industries rose much faster than in the rest of the economy. That meant that the same or higher quantity of steel, cars, and electronics could be produced with many fewer workers. Manufacturing's share of total employment began to decline steadily in all the advanced industrial countries sometime after the Second World War.

When economists get it right, the world gets better.

I'm always telling myself that my primary goal is to be the best I can be at this time, and if I keep that as my focus, I'll always be okay with myself and where I am right now.

When you're always taking the next healthy step mentally and physically, you're as in charge of your life as you can be. But what happens after you take that action—how others react to you, whether you get that job or that award or that opportunity—isn't something you're in charge of. Wallowing in "what ifs" doesn't do you any good; in fact, it's a distraction from taking the next positive, powerful, passionate step forward.

Take your eyes off what you lost.

The national plan is about all of us moving together. It's also not a national plan for picnics, just quietly

We're heading towards being one of the most vaccinated places in the world - and I couldn't be prouder.

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. —Thomas Carruthers

Even the most creative skills—especially the most creative skills—require long periods of clumsiness.

to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.

The goal needs to be to get the team right, get them moving in the right direction, and get them to see where they are making mistakes and where they are succeeding.

After all, you aren't built to be transformed in a single day. You are built to improve little by little, connection by connection, rep by rep. As Wooden also said, "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.

What ignited the progress wasn't any innate skill or gene. It was a small, ephemeral, yet powerful idea: a vision of their ideal future selves, a vision that oriented, energized, and accelerated progress, and that originated in the outside world.

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The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

GIVE A NEW SKILL A MINIMUM OF EIGHT WEEKS