Quotes about Progress

You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. So

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying.

Jesus is big on people evolving. And all organisms have an innate tendency to evolve toward improvement. I seem to be the outlier.

I was waiting for the kind of solution where God reaches down and touches you with his magic wand and all of a sudden I would be fixed, like a broken toaster oven. But this was not the way it happened. Instead, I got one angstrom unit better, day by day.

But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

You can't logically get from where we were to where we are now. I think that is what they mean by grace.

We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the the stakes or the pain is high enough.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal. The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

The only choice we have is to begin. And the only place to begin is where we are. Simply begin. But begin.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.