Quotes About Advancement

Breaking your stretch goal into a series of smaller, doable actions may help. What steps will you need to take to get to your goal? If your goal is a promotion, how can you get more visibility with power players? Which project can you put your hand up for that will showcase your skills and commitment? What else can you do to show that you are ready to advance? How can you attract a sponsor?

But if no one speaks honestly to you, how will you know what is getting in the way of your moving up?

He helped me get a coach, and I started to handle the issues that stopped me from advancing. I was raised to be 'nice' and not to brag, to play down my abilities.

it is a vice to spend years and centuries saying of progress, 'I should like it, but I do not want it.

If life realizes a plan, it ought to manifest a greater harmony the further it advances, just as the house shows better and better the idea of the architect as stone is set upon stone. If, on the contrary, the unity of life is to be found solely in the impetus that pushes it along the road of time, the harmony is not in front, but behind.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Everything can always be done better than it is being done.

Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.

The difficulty is not in finding men to advance but men willing to be advanced.

Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited. And all of this can always be done.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Why, of course," objected Stepan Arkadyevitch. "But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.

But if man, as in our society, advances only towards physical love, even though he surrounds it with deceptions and with the shallow formality of marriage, he obtains nothing but licensed vice.

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

Any good music must be an innovation.

Onward and upward.