Quotes About Progress

19 th century literature is dead in this country

Man of Tomorrow," my ass. Try "Man of the nineteen-fifties!

The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.

Tiny actions can fundamentally alter your relationship to the world for the better.

there isn't necessarily a connection between how much you are enjoying the practice and its longer-term benefits.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unmourned, well, you get the drift. As a counselor once told me -a counselor for Disaffected Yought, I might add: "You like that crap because it reminds you of you." Couldn't of said it better or put it more bluntly. Don't even disagree with it either.

Creating channels between people who want to work together toward change has always been one of the ways that social movements push the world forward and make it better.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

A German immigrant named Emile Berliner started to carve songs into seven-inch wax disks, and to make as many copies as needed from a single master recording, while the two biggest companies in the business—Edison and Columbia—raced each other to improve fidelity and to drive prices down enough to make the phonograph a middle-class vanity toy.

Täydellisyys mitataan puutteilla. Joka ei epäonnistu usein, se ei onnistu koskaan.

Things done imperfectly still bless our lives

Most jobs can be done in less than 15 minutes. Just 15! If it's taking you longer than 15 minutes, you might be doing something wrong. So set your timer and you'll be amazed at how much progress you make before the bell goes off.

I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.

Life is just a slow march towards death.

Yenilikler ancak onlar için yer açt???m?z zaman yaÅŸant?m?za girebilirler.

This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis and people of good will in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

Never think about the past, that shit will fuck you up and you cant fuck it back

every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.

Only a matter of time before you make enemies as ruthless as you, after all you're the one raising the bar

But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never even expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare climb higher. That's the problem with midway.

Dead. It sounds final but it's a word missing an ing.

after Tuesday come Wednesday. And what you do on Tuesday change the type of Wednesday that going come to you.