Quotes About Progress

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Innovation is an unruly thing. There will be some ideas that don't get caught in your cup. But that's not what the game is about. The game is what you catch, not what you spill.

Normal science," Kuhn writes about the limitations of such scientific belief systems, "the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like.

civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

Every day in every way, I'm getting better. —EMILE COUE

revolutionaries are more likely to be those who have been given at least some taste of a better life.

One final tip before you get started: Set a goal and write it down. Whatever the goal, the important thing is that you set it, so you've got something for which to aim—and that you write it down. There is something magical about writing things down. So set a goal and write it down. When you reach that goal, set another and write that down. You'll be off and running.34

The renowned British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead recognized this inescapable quality of modern life when he asserted that "civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them." Take, for example, the "advance" offered to civilization by the discount coupon, which allows consumers to assume that they will receive a reduced purchase price by presenting the coupon.

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI B

Every day in every way, I'm getting busier. —ROBERT CIALDINI

Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them. —Alfred North Whitehead

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

all problems can be reperceived as challenges, or "opportunities" to change, grow or learn.

In 1934, when the economy began emerging from the bottom of the Great Depression, it grew 7.7 percent. The next year it grew more than 8 percent. In 1936 it grew a whopping 14.1 percent.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

One of the secrets to sharing a work in progress is to know whom you are sharing it with and what you want to learn from them.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.

The law of change says, "Things do not stay the same. If they don't get better, they get worse." If relationships do not get stronger, they will get weaker; if they do not become closer, they will become more distant; if they do not become more productive, they will become less productive.

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far."