Progress Quotes
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Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.
Mary Baker Eddy -
You make a record because you have to chart your progress, not only for yourself, but for your audience.
Jason Moran
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To study the meaning of man and of life - I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I've always been able to make a living, a pretty decent one. The progress has always been steady, if not spectacular. Now when I audition, I go up against people like Juliette Lewis and Joan Cusack, and, quite frankly, if the producers can get them, they're not going to take me. I'm still pretty much a medium potato.
Yeardley Smith -
Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.
Adam Smith -
How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?
Lubna Olayan -
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
William Ames -
It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we otherwise should have made... But this war was a fearful lesson, and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant
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You don’t think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell’s own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb.
Frederik Pohl -
Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.
Marquis de Condorcet -
Any time we can get together and talk about an issue, I think it should be considered progress. I'd like to thank Representative Bradley for putting this committee hearing together. We look forward to working with the mineral rights groups and our elected leaders on a solution.
Larry Miller -
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
Octavio Paz -
All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
George Bernard Shaw -
… Following these examples every responsible government should strive to remove those obstacles that hinder the progress of civilisation and should stimulate the growth of those economic forces that a nation carries in its bosom.
Friedrich List
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While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it moves forward; be aware of the prevailing winds and currents that influence your progress as the master of the ship.
Ian Gardner -
The application of algebra to geometry... far more than any of his metaphysical speculations, has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.
John Stuart Mill -
Error is the price we pay for progress.
Alfred North Whitehead -
Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.
Barry Eichengreen -
We have already observed that the fortunes or misfortunes of individuals are dependent upon the maintenance of the independence and progress of the whole nation.
Friedrich List -
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Bill Vaughan
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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
Ogden Nash -
In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.
Peter T. King -
Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.
Cheikh Anta Diop -
I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.
Elizabeth McCracken