Progress Quotes
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I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.
Peter Thiel
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
Thomas Carlyle
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Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
Ludwig Quidde
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Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
Sean William Scott
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We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.
Bill Gates
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison
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We're all works of art in progress.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
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I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.
Albert Wynn
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Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
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What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we're going to find progress as a nation.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
John Moody -
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
Joyce Grenfell
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I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see its broad fruitful farms, its humming factories, its gleaming cities, certainly it is easy to realize that we have achieved unequaled material progress in this great country.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
Richard Feynman
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Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.
Barack Obama
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We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!
Eva LaRue
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Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.
Alan Robinson
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You have to present documentation of how you meet the core areas. It then goes through a committee, which evaluates progress of who did best in each overall area.
James Irwin
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Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.
Albert Einstein
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Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.
Edward Boyden
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Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.
Richard Owen
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard