“The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.” NeedsDreamNextAsksProgressResourcesCharityRateScalesApplesGoogleNext TimeAmazonOverhead Author:Dan Pallotta
“In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.” DoeStepsProgressPlansEvolutionOne DayProgramPerfectionStriveScalesSuperiorsClassicTwelvePrimitiveOrganismsOne Day At A Time Author:Natalie
“India's role is not to interfere in what Nepal does but to support Nepal in their development. Nepal should scale new heights of progress.” ShouldDoePoliticsRolesSupportProgressDevelopmentIndiaScalesHeightInterfereNepal Author:Narendra Modi
“At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.” FirstsRememberSocialWomenWifeProgressOfficeHighestAccomplishMotherhoodScalesRememberedWomanhood Author:Herbert Croly
“Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.” WritingHumansIdeasMomentsStoriesRealityTodayPastCultureGoalMemoriesProgressPlansSacrificeModernEternalDevilConceptsEternityImprovementScalesEndlessEnormousSchemesHuxleyModern CultureLive Futures Author:Jack Kornfield
“Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.” WorldHumansLooksLittlesStillsCharacterPoliticalTurnsSleepAbilityResultsProgressEventsAffairProsperityScalesVainPermanentDepartmentSurprisingPillowHideousNoisyCorrespondingPublic Good Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.” IfsStatesAbleChurchAnimalUnitedViewsUnited StatesRightsProgressScalesAnimal RightsMosquesLarge ScaleSynagogueAnimal Rights ActivistsAnimal Activist Author:Norm Phelps