Progress Quotes

• Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Important
  • Real
  • Nature

• Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.

  

  William P. Young
  • Believe
  • Sometimes
  • Regret

• Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo focuses on scoring to progress, so perhaps I need to think more about scoring.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Progress

• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Time
  • Impossible
  • Mysterious

• The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

  

  David Simon
  • Why
  • Game
  • Political

• The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure until there is a cure.

  

  David Mixner
  • Up
  • Community
  • Progress

• If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

  

  Michael Giles
  • Progress
  • Make
  • Progressive

• If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Time
  • Job
  • Today

• In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • Done
  • Soul
  • Desire

• Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Society
  • Progress
  • Legislation

• Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Heart
  • Progress
  • Human

• I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.

  

  George Strait
  • Band
  • Progress

• The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

  

  Sherrod Brown
  • Speak
  • Army
  • Honest

• Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.

  

  Augustin Thierry
  • Action
  • Government
  • Protection

• Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Bad
  • Looking
  • Backward

• Everyone deals with trauma differently, and recovery is always a work in progress. But courage is contagious, and the more that people stand up and speak out against misogyny, the faster we can create the kind of world where we won't have to.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

  

  Sean Elliott
  • Progress
  • Disease
  • Office

• We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'

  

  Errol White
  • Evolution
  • Biology
  • Jumping

• We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

  

  Shigeru Yoshida
  • Mankind
  • Blessing
  • Harmony

• The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Single
  • Progress

• The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

  

  John Calvin
  • Progress
  • Condition
  • Sincere

• Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

  

  Michael Porter
  • Responsibility
  • Economic
  • Transformation

• Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Goal
  • Pursuit
  • Measurement

• People want progress, but they don't want change.

  

  Eva Burrows
  • People
  • Change
  • Progress

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