The document contains quotes from notable figures throughout history on topics like progress, leadership, knowledge, problem-solving, and adapting to change. The quotes emphasize aiming high to achieve goals, using past knowledge to benefit the present and future, developing new plans in response to failure, recognizing problems early, valuing new information, and ensuring common sense can address situations after leadership ends.

1. “ The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” - Indira Gandhi

2. “ We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “ Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.” - Albert Einstein

4. “ Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.” - Eilel Saarinen

5. “ We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” - Frederick Douglass

6. “ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

7. “ The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” - Napoleon Hill

8. “ One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” - Arnold Glasgow

9. “ New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. - Kurt Vonnegut

10. “ The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.” - Walter Lippmann

11. “ Our age of anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools.” - Marshall McLuhan