Progress Quotes

• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Progress

• Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.

  

  Kris Gopalakrishnan
  • Success
  • Vision
  • Communication

• Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Progress

• Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Experience
  • Progress

• In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Art
  • Experience

• Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Progress
  • Foundation
  • Guessing

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  

  Dale Turner
  • People
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Learning
  • Progress
  • Stills

• The only way to progress, to try to develop, is to kill what was before, sacrifice it. Annihilate it, break it down.

  

  Carl McCoy
  • Kill
  • Develop
  • Before

• I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Real
  • Think
  • Growth

• Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Progress

• Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Wish
  • Religious

• And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• We have been underserved, underprivileged and unfortunate for far too long. There are no more excuses. It's not enough to have limited progress and allow our expectations and sense of purpose to evaporate. So, if that means we must sacrifice some nights at the club and give up buying the latest designer handbags and sneakers... well then damn, so be it.

  

  T.I.
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mean

• The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Art

• A true leader must strive towards a grand vision of human progress, but remember that the minor details of her everyday life really matter to those who look up to her as a role model.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• We need to be able to guarantee the safety of all artists and activists for human rights so that it no longer takes extraordinary courage to call for a better world - so that every person with the ability to imagine peace, equality, progress, and justice can express their dreams and hopes without fear.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • World
  • Fear
  • Peace

• Gentleman, I am a republican, a radical republican, a Black republican, a republican dyed in the wool, and for one I want the republican party to live as long as I do… It is the party of law and order, of liberty and progress, of honor and honesty, as against disloyalty, moral stagnation, dishonest voting, and repudiation.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Long
  • Live
  • Black

• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Progress

• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • World
  • Progress

• Impossible for me to know whether or not I take myself seriously. The drama of detachment is that we cannot measure its progress. We advance into a desert, and we never know where we are in it.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Progress
  • Drama
  • Desert

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Science
  • Know
  • Progress

• The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.

  

  David Gross
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Advice

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