Quotes About Progress

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

You can't see how far I've come because your still waiting to see how far I'll get

La transparencia avanza pero la opacidad también.

Y así como durante siglos hubo un consenso en torno a que la tierra era plana, en el país prevalece un consenso para no cambiar.

Ain't you interested in bettering yourself?" "'Bettering yourself.' Now there's a phrase for you. You think your brother is a better man now than he was when he was hoeing corn?" "He's happier." "That ain't the same thing. He's happy at everybody's else's expense. Progress is always at somebody's expense. Hit means putting everything in order till they's no room to breathe. Progress means cleaning everything up. But I like things dirty.

We don't matriculate engineering as a major for females,

Whether or not you agree with the outcome, the tremendous amount that the Manhattan Project accomplished in such a short amount of time–just under three years–is astonishing. It makes you wonder what other kinds of things could be accomplished with that kind of determination, effort, and financial and political support. What if the kind of money, manpower, and resources that went into the Manhattan Project went into the fight against hunger? Cancer? Homelessness?

quoin trim, the YMI building was much like many of the buildings

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.

Forever is a long time, but not as long as it was yesterday.

We didn't create society for men, we created it to stop men.