Progress Quotes
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All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.
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Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.
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Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.
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It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.
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When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.
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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.
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Sometimes we make progress in leaps. And sometimes we make them in small steps.
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I will be monitoring the situation closely and, if I am not satisfied that sufficient progress is being made, I will take tougher action,"
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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.
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You have to stick to your goals of progress.
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Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.
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Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then each woman and man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.
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I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
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One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.
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I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
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If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.
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As the lead plaintiff in Veasey v. Abbott, I'm proud of our fight and the progress made.
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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.
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Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.
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The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
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As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.
