Quotes About Progress

there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction….Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being who you are." Everything happens for a reason. Everything has a purpose.

I have been struck by how important measurement is to improving the human condition," Bill Gates wrote. "You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal. … This may seem basic, but it is amazing how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.

So many different formulas can work that there's no real formula. What's important is to learn from whomever or whatever you can, at your own rate, in your own way. How or when you learn doesn't matter, so long as the learning occurs.

We must continue up the steps because the path is right, and the process of climbing is all that matters.

We needn't look any further ahead than today or commit to any more than taking one step. When we've taken one, we can commit to taking another. Pretty soon we've reached fifty. Pretty soon we've reached a hundred. Pretty soon we've reached zen.

IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and you'll come out at the other end looking like a woman. The stuff in the middle is just what everyone goes through, it;s almost never much fun.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

En coupant du temps on en fabrique.

Sans doute ne savait-elle pas que lorsqu'on a quitté les Enfers, jamais il ne faut s'en retourner vers eux.

I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.

Reform fatigue" is more likely to set in if countries are stuck in a debt trap with no light at the end of the tunnel.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

Life's managed, not cured.

After checking into the Hotel Monaco in downtown Seattle, Dana walked to Yesler Way, a steep street known as Skid Road in the 1850s, when the area was teeming with trees and a chute was used to skid logs to Henry Yesler's sawmill. When Seattle's city center moved north, the area became a dilapidated haven for drunks and derelicts and went from being called Skid Road to Skid Row, a term eventually used all over America to refer to a down-and-out section of a town or city.

I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.

about every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale. And, he goes on to say, we are living in and through one of those five-hundred-year sales.

One of the things I like about big cities is the way people of different races and religions get to know one another. There's so much we all need to learn. If we only talk to our own kind of people , how can we learn enough in time to learn to live safely in the sort of world we have today?

Patience was what was important, not just the destination, but the journey. The goal is not just being full grown, but learning to grow.

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.