Progress Quotes

• Allowing an election to happen now only serves the ends of people who don't want to see progress made under the Kyoto Protocol, so you have to say it's unfortunate that we've come to this.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Progress
  • Election
  • Unfortunate

• Unless we’re willing to spend eons striving for perfection every time we encounter a hitch, hard problems demand that instead of spinning our tires we imagine easier versions and tackle those first. When applied correctly, this is not just wishful thinking, not fantasy or idle daydreaming. It’s one of our best ways of making progress.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Problems
  • Fantasy
  • Idle

• The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Humans
  • Belief
  • Race

• We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.

  

  Nina Jacobson
  • Progress
  • Ourselves
  • Congratulate

• 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.

  

  Chris Wood
  • Progress

• I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Women
  • Equality
  • Sustaining

• Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

  

  Anna Olson
  • Progress
  • Stick
  • Neck

• Machines already are much smarter than us at so many things. I mean, try to multiply two 10-digit numbers with each other or, you know, sift through a thousand documents. So there's lots of things that machines are better at including in mental task than us. There's many more that they're not as good at, but the direction is pretty obvious and the progress is clear.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Trying
  • Progress
  • Obvious

• 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
  • Opportunity
  • Interesting
  • Answers

• The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

  

  Joseph McCabe
  • Progress
  • Atheist
  • Factors

• 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.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Revolution
  • Innovation
  • Economic

• I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Care
  • Progress
  • Changed

• A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Purpose
  • Road
  • Progress

• I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Environment
  • Progress
  • Scientific

• Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.

  

  Carol Browner
  • Water
  • Swimming
  • Environmental

• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  

  Cecil O. Samuelson
  • Attention
  • Responsibility
  • Effort

• 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.

  

  Dean L. Larsen
  • Opportunity
  • Security
  • Development

• Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Progress
  • My Life
  • Problems

• The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Taken
  • Unique
  • Leader

• What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Progress

• If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Important
  • Ability
  • Honesty

• The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Progress
  • Humans
  • Individual

• The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

  

  Adolphe Quetelet
  • Science
  • Progress
  • Mathematics

• 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.

  

  David Bowie
  • Children
  • Grateful
  • Antibiotics

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