Quotes about Progress

If I deal with my block and you deal with your block, we'll have two good blocks.

Laying a good foundation is important, but the fact remains that we don't live in the foundation; we live in the house built upon it. In that house where daily life is lived, things are not always as they should be.

If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

We adhere to the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," while not really questioning whether "it" is "broke.

They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.

Identifying disruptive footholds means connecting with specific jobs that people—your future customers—are trying to get done in their lives.

In reality, spinning out is an appropriate step only when confronting disruptive innovation.

The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back.

progressive automation will probably lead to an enormous increase in the leisure hours available to the average worker.

E]very human task is an eternal one and human progress is endless, an advance into infinity, toward a goal located in infinity. And even then it is a matter only of each individual's progress in his own personal history.

Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such

Thus it can be seen that mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become. Such a tension is inherent in the human being and therefore is indispensable to mental well-being.