Progress Quotes
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.
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It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.
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We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Progress is impossible without change.
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Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.
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Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
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As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.
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Over the past ten years, I've processed a lot. I'm still processing. And there is more to be done. But I'm very proud of the person I am today. I'm proud to be gay. I'm proud to be a reckless optimist. I'm proud to keep learning and sharing what I've learned. I'm proud to be a work in progress.
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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 I grew up, we didn't even talk about being gay. I didn't even hear the word lesbian when I was little. So to me, that's such huge progress to see everyone wanting to be on the right side of transgender history.
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Change is automatic, Progress is Not!
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Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.
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One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.
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... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.
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Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.
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I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.
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I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.
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Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.
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Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
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Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.
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The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
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But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.
