Progress Quotes
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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
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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.
Dean L. Larsen
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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.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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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.
Chris Wood
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We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.
Nina Jacobson
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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
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Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.
Eric Ries
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When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.
Stephen Covey
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I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.
Viola Davis
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Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
George Will
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To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.
Richard Feynman
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Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.
Susan Blackmore
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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.
David Bowie
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Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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
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There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward a peace treaty and the resolution of issues related to territorial problems. Now, what did he propose? He proposed promoting an environment of trust and cooperation. I believe it is even hard to imagine that it can be any different, that we can agree to sign the documents that we are talking about without trusting each other or without cooperation. That is simply impossible even to imagine.
Vladimir Putin
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The more we preach hatred, division and putting up a wall, the less we progress.
Edwin Hodge
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Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
Mother Teresa
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
Herbert Spencer
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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
Jeff Bezos
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Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."
Evgeny Morozov
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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
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The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe
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Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
Richard Feynman