Quotes About Progress

He learned quickly. He was so big and strong that he soon out-raced, out-shot, out-boxed, out-ran, out-wrestled, and out-led-into-battle all his teachers.

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through

We're the first generation where artists have become true businessmen and felt neither shame nor pain

To have been always what I am; and so changed from what I was

That sounds really interesting. I'm working on A, B, and C right now. Which should I set aside in order to focus on this project?

But you can't sit around waiting for a mentor to find you. You have to search for them, and that may mean looking beyond your immediate department or area. Your

You want to be sure you're working for someone who will advocate on your behalf and isn't going to try to keep you in your same old spot—out

it's this: the squeaky wheel definitely gets the grease. One of the most important things you must learn to do in your career is ask—in the right way. You must ask for money, responsibility, opportunities, title changes, benefits, bonuses, and perks. And don't

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

I believe...that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting.

The editorial—written by a liberated man—suggested legal and social remedies but concluded that "perhaps we can begin with the ultra-radical notion that a woman is a human being.

I had very little idea of what I was supposed to be doing, so I set out to learn. What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the edge.

No longer would the Post write such lines as one identified by Chal Roberts in his history of the paper: "Sam Jones, 24, Negro, was arrested for larceny yesterday." Overnight, he eliminated "freebies"—trips paid for by the government and free tickets for anything. Also, after just a few weeks on the job, he called in the police reporter, Al Lewis, to ask if he was having parking

Most people seem to turn off at some point in their lives. Maybe it's thirty or forty. For most people it's lots younger. They stop there. Stop growing or changing or learning or something. From that point on they're dead.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Civilization as well as education takes a downward spiral when it ceases to ask What is truth? and concerns itself primarily with what is measurable.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

New things pop up at the edges, but the middle's where the money is.

Maybe there's a natural order in all this: New things pop up at the edges, but the middle's where the money is. I did that dance myself over the years. I got rich doing it. And now here I am, an old white lady in a fur coat on a Murray Hill sidewalk, eavesdropping on passersby, wondering what I'm missing.

Nostalgia for what's new: The French probably have a word for that.

Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. 'Where a door is closed, another is opened.' – From Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

was regaining his strength now on a fairly steady diet