Browsing Quotes With Tag: progress (17)
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The one thing that’s clear is that new ideas won’t emerge without the jettisoning of much of our accustomed categories of thought— which have become mostly sheer dead weight, if not intrinsic parts of the very apparatus of hopelessness—and formulating new ones. This is why I spent so much of this book talking about the market, but also about the false choice between state and market that so monopolized political ideology for the last centuries that it made it difficult to argue about anything else.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Behind every great business is an entrepreneur who’s pretty sure she’s screwing up.
Speaker: John JantschPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone can say, “I don’t like it.” I want to hear you say, “here’s how we can make it better.”
Speaker: Walt DisneySource: How to Be Like WaltPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 7:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 14 Feb 2010 at 2:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I am not going anywhere. I am only on the way. I am making a pilgrimage.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Speaker: Franklin D. RooseveltPosted: 16 Sep 2009 at 8:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You’ll notice that a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck.
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Worry is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere
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You’ll never leave where you are until you decide where you’d rather be.
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Speaker: Joseph JoubertPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say ‘I was wrong.’
Speaker: Sydney J. HarrisPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be forever reaching out, to remain unsatisfied, is the key to spiritual progress.
Speaker: Arden EngebretsenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some old-school types complain these days that higher education too often feels like it is all about customer service. Students and their parents believe they are paying top dollar for a product, and so they want it to be valuable in a measurable way. It’s as if they’ve walked into a department store, and instead of buying five pairs of designer jeans, they’ve purchased a five-subject course load.
I don’t fully reject the customer-service model, but I think it’s important to use the right industry metaphor. It’s not retail. Instead, I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding. We need to make sure that our students are exerting themselves. We need to praise them when they deserve it and to tell them honestly when they have it in them to work harder.
Most importantly, we need to let them know how to judge for themselves how they’re coming along. The great thing about working in a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in the mirror.Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!