If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.
I've been trying to catch up to it. Just trying to get with it, feel behind it a little bit, but that's good actually, probably. That way, I'm still sort of understanding it.
If we stay in one place, we will become outdated
Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.
Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own.
If I missed once, I might never catch up again.
you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing
The worst kind of decline is a slow decline—slow enough not to notice that you are in decline.
The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.
I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.
I'm covered with loser dust.
One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.
The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.
We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward
I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.
If you miss one day in physics, that's it.
I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.
We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.
In the years between 'Afterlight' and 'Legacy,' we see a Zu who has watched all of her older friends head out into the world to do meaningful work while she's made to wait and hang back because of her age. It reinforces a feeling in her that she's falling further and further behind and won't ever catch up to them.
