Quotes About Progress

Porque las palabras del año pasado pertenecen al lenguaje del año pasado y las palabras del año que viene esperan una voz distinta'.

Computers don't kill books; people do.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

The phones are smarter but we are dumber.

We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski put it, we see further because we "stand on the shoulders"5 of the previous generation. The danger of such a position is that we can forget to put our own feet on the ground.

Keep the progress, but recover the lost values. Technically, then he's talking about renaissance: the rebirth of old ideas in a new framework.

When your real goal is finding the dog, fixing the ceiling, and preventing such incidents in the future, focusing on blame is a waste of time. It neither helps you understand the problem looking back, nor helps you fix it going forward.

Want to fast-track your growth? Go directly to the people you have the hardest time with. Ask them what you're doing that's exacerbating the situation. They will surely tell you.

I'm sure we'd all like to move on quickly. At the same time, I imagine it is even more important to all of us that this work. I would very much like this initiative to succeed but don't yet feel confident in my ability to pull it off. Specifically, it would help to spell out how we might answer a couple of the objections I can imagine coming our way. For example. . . .

Moving Toward a Learning Conversation

Don't Exaggerate with "Always" and "Never": Give Them Room to Change

The evaluation conversation needs to take place first. When a professor hands back a graded paper, the student will first turn to the last page to check their grade. Only then can they take in the instructor's margin notes. We can't focus on how to improve until we know where we stand.

Contribution Is About Understanding, and Looks Forward

The best way to describe time, therefore, is not as cyclical or linear, but rather as a spiral. it is both cycling and simultaneously progressing forward or evolving upward.

If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

He had to admit that the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until you change.

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

But I'm like a fine wine," he replied. "I get better with age.