Quotes About Advancement

tener un jefe amable no necesariamente significa que tenga un buen jefe, y mucho menos que sea capaz de darle un verdadero empujón a su carrera.

Yes, superbosses are willing to advance people, even when protégés don't think they're ready. Yes, they will purposefully step back so their protégés can shine. Yes, they will organize their entire enterprise so that informal, apprenticeship-style learning can take place. But they will ultimately push protégés to step up and take responsibility for their own development by cultivating an everyday focus on learning and growth.

Star performers are very likely to attract sponsors, and loyal performers are very likely to keep them. But if they fail to distinguish themselves, these loyal performers run the risk of becoming permanent seconds, lieutenants who never make captain. To position themselves for the top job, protégés must therefore contribute something the leader prizes but may intrinsically lack:

Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond?

Architecture's history of interaction with other mediums is a long and complex story of intimacy and separation, power and control, but it is also a history that has repeatedly played a central role in the discipline's advancement.

No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he builds on knowledge already achieved and engages in a movement of advance. But it is one of the worst characteristics of theological study, whether in biblical interpretation or in dogmatic formulation, that every scholar nowadays thinks he must start all over again, and too many give the impression that no one ever understood this or that until they came along.

Nobody's so great that they can't get better.

Little by little, a little becomes a lot.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

You still got a ways to go.

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

and sleepily thought of how technology was no longer the source of wonderment and possibility it had been...

Our daughter needs to know things, she needs to know how fortunate she is. When I was her age . . .' My mother cut him off. 'Stop it, Franklin. This is how progress works. You have it better than your daddy and I have it better than mine.

I am much more interested in the process than results.

Bureaucratic advancement means fewer peers, more span of control, generally an increasing information-pump function, and increased distance from the actual implementation of whatever it is the organization does.

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have. Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal.

Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.

But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.