Quotes About Progress

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

The key to success is failure.

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

We might make mistakes but we will make other things too.

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.

The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don't dwell.

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.

Donald checked the box beside Venezuela on his list and kept scrolling down.

Is it any wonder that no cure for cancer has ever been revealed?

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets.

based on what the wind does, we build

Las personas entran y salen de nuestra de vida. Nunca llegamos a enterarnos de cuándo y cómo llegan, ni tampoco de cuándo y cómo se van. Simplemente, aprendemos de ello, lo sobrellevamos como podemos y seguimos adelante. Así es como funciona. Y eso es lo que tienes que hacer tú ahora.

We are so accustomed to thinking of European civilization as the vanguard of the world that we forget that for much of human history, the European peninsula was at the receiving end of the miracles of the East. Over the millennia, innovations such as Mesopotamian agriculture, the Phoenician alphabet, Greek philosophy, and Arab bookkeeping all flowed from east to west. Both Christianity and Islam followed the same route. So did wheat, olives, sugar, and spices.

Today, however, we know that writing, at least science writing, is partly a skill. And skills can be improved. The pain can be reduced.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

The choice, though, is not between scrupulous obedience and ecstatic abandon. The choice runs right down the middle. If you really want to know how to fly, you need to know how to walk.

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. Bill James

Success was individual achievement; failure was a social problem.

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

Don't worry where I am. I'll tell you when I get there.