Quotes About Progress

Regardless of many people`s perceived need to be extracautious in this new age, the rise of transparency caused by the social media revolution is rapidly building a far better world.

Today, we are right there with the social media and hold it in our hands. In my opinion, such change of ownership always means revolution, regardless of its direction.

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Nothing is made by men but makes, in the end, good ruins.

We ask a great deal of the world at first -- then less -- and then less.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle," I told him. "A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go. It's no wonder you feel shaky.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. —William E. Gladstone

A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it is going forward towards something. You have a good bicycle. Your trouble is you are trying to maintain your balance sitting still, with no place to go.

So remember you make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you—anything.

thought to change their thinking of the "self" which was to accomplish these things.

You can be happy now as well as every single day you are working toward achieving your goals. When you discover happiness along the way—instead of expecting that you can only be happy once you've achieved a goal— then you've already fulfilled the promise of Psycho-Cybernetics.

success" has nothing to do with prestige symbols, but with creative accomplishment.

An automatic guidance system corrects its course from negative feedback data. It acknowledges errors in order to correct them and stay on course. So must you. Admit your mistakes and errors, but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward. In dealing with other people, try to see the situation from their point of view as well as your own.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. —Elbert Hubbard

Do not allow yourself to become discouraged if nothing seems to happen when you set about practicing the various techniques outlined in this book for changing your self-image.

You must daily have the courage to risk making mistakes, risk failure, risk being humiliated. A step in the wrong direction is better than staying 'on the spot' all your life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, standing still.

Just because the mental imagery isn't clear when you begin does not mean it won't get clearer, more vivid, more detailed, and more powerful each time you practice.