Progress Quotes

• Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Progress

• We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

  

  Donna Edwards
  • Work
  • America
  • Perfect

• Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Peace

• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Justice

• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards victory.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Victory

• We live in an age dominated by the problem of limits. We are witnessing the end of progress. We have reached the saturation point. Are we going beyond these limits? Are we going to take the risk? There is much work to do to maintain the planet.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer
  • Work
  • Live
  • Age

• In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Intelligence

• When you create stuff, you're always going to be progressing and where you're at a year down the line, as the creator, it's always going to feel immature. You're going to notice the flaws and the things that you've learned in that year aren't going to be there. So, I think it's important to see stuff as a capture of time - that's what I was doing at that time - and not be ashamed of it. That's how I try to approach music.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Ashamed

• I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Help
  • Progress

• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Progress

• A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • May
  • History
  • Society

• We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Positive
  • Progress

• People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Long
  • Mean

• The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.

  

  Andre Michel Lwoff
  • Data
  • Chemical
  • Biochemistry

• Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • People
  • Work
  • Eyes

• The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • May
  • Nature
  • Sea

• And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.

  

  John W. Snow
  • People
  • Work
  • Growth

• I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

  

  John Dramani Mahama
  • Progress

• The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Health

• I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Progress

• Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • Progress
  • Errors
  • Recognizing

• There are common-sense things that your government could do that would give Americans more opportunities to succeed. Why don’t we do it? Because powerful special interests and the tendency to put ideology ahead of political progress have led to gridlock in Congress.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Why
  • Political
  • Powerful

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