Progress Quotes
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
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Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
Walton Goggins
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
Laura Esquivel
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
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Overall, America's math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have risen since the 1990s though remain disappointing when compared to the rest of the globe.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
Vince Cable
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There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
Adam Davidson
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Failure is success in progress.
Albert Einstein
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Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.
Earl Blumenauer
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
Barbara Amiel
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering
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Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules-and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
Gail Sheehy
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
Najib Razak
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
Dan Pallotta
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass
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If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.
Pope Benedict XVI
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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
Olympia Snowe
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There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
Leslie Jamison
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
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We've well and truly done that now. We've got a really nice launching pad into tomorrow. With some good disciplined batting we can get a big lead.
B. R. Hayden
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I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.
Donald Barthelme
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Franz Kafka
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
Barack Obama