Quotes About Progress

Every great leap in life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.

It is better to look up.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I'm only at the beginning.

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day.

The late start is due to the time.

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.

I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.

We live in a very inspirational point in time. Things are progressing faster and further than ever before. What inspires me most is the world we live in adapting at such a rapid rate.

If you must compromise, compromise up.

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

It is better to travel, than to arrive

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.