Quotes about Progress

Third, show them work often. This is the best way to chip away at a client's natural situational anxiety. Look, they're paying you big bucks for your work, and it's totally natural for them to begin feeling anxious the moment they send you the deposit. So show them what they're paying for.

Say no by default If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD It

Another common misconception: You need to learn from your mistakes. What do you really learn from mistakes? You might learn what not to do again, but how valuable is that? You still don't know what you should do next. Contrast that with learning from your successes.

The solution: Break the big thing into smaller things. The smaller it is, the easier it is to estimate. You're probably still going to get it wrong, but you'll be a lot less wrong than if you estimated a big project. If something takes twice as long as you expected, better to have it be a small project that's a couple weeks over rather than a long one that's a couple months over. Keep breaking your time frames down into

If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

This did not happen in spite of the chronos season; it happened because of what was taking place in and through the chronos season.

One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get out of their way and give it to them.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.