Quotes About Progress

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." Mia Hamm quote

Celebrate what you have accomplished but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Each day I attempted to play up to their level... and I was improving faster than I ever dreamed possible.

My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster he could too.

All my life I've been playing up, meaning I've challenged myself with players older, bigger, more skillful, more experienced -- in short, better than me.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

and continually evolving both the structure

The transformation of America that took place during the post-World War II period really began a decade earlier, with the completion of Hoover Dam. The story of America in the last half of the twentieth century is the story not of the postwar era, but the post-dam era.

I had spent my life in the river bottoms and Boulder meant a wonderful climax," Crowe recalled in 1943. "I was wild to build this dam." So, too, were the founders of Six Companies, Inc., the unwieldy contracting consortium assembled in 1931 to make a bid on the dam project.

Kay remained preoccupied with a lesson he had assimilated from Marshall McLuhan: Once humans shape their tools, they turn around and "reshape us.

LINC "was the first machine that you could take apart and put in the back of your car, carry somewhere else, put back together again, and it would run," Ornstein recalled. "That idea had never previously seemed conceivable.

The Computer Science Lab was a collection of engineers who weighed everything pitilessly against the question: How will this get us closer to our goal? They had committed themselves to developing Xerox's office of the future, and anything that diverted their attention or served an alternative goal had to be discarded or obliterated.

The governing principle of PARC was that the place existed to give their employer that ten-year head start on the future. They even contrived a shorthand phrase to explain the concept. The Alto, they said, was a time machine. Thacker

In 1973 the companies and individuals later to be identified with the advent of the personal computer were otherwise engaged. IBM was still turning out electric typewriters; Microsoft's Bill Gates was a freshman entering Harvard; and Steve Jobs, the future co-founder of Apple Computer, was a college dropout wandering around India in search of his Zen master. But

The absence of a vision of a socialist alternative ensures that there is no alternative to capitalism. If you don't know where you want to go, no road will take you there

If you buy a 486 with a SuperVGA, you'll get performance that knocks your socks off, especially if you run Windows.

Awareness Increases Success

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

In the lean world," he grinned, "if the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught." "And what if I train them and then they leave?" "What if you don't and they stay?" he replied.

George Bernard Shaw made the point best: 'The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him … The unreasonable man adapts the surrounding conditions to himself … All progress depends on the unreasonable man.