Progress Quotes

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. Th...

So, why do you write these strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that ques

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more...

[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illus...

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, relig...

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine...

...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among ot...

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy eno...

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of ...

My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief...

At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so re...

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic:...

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to West...

Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get...

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I goi...

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e....

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

One can not impede scientific progress.

If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my des...

Walking was not fast enough so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was no...

We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, mac...

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actua...

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires...

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert the...

In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same re...

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissol...

Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of so...

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of scien...

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat diff...

Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at...

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on th...

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you liste...

We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by m...

Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happines...

Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to furt...

In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is...

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself...

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed i...

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest th...

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communicatio...

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in ...

If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reactio...

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violenc...

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade tha...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum...

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what d...

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You...

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquies...

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wh...

The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s ...

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indiffere...

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on too long.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is car...

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the...

Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. ...

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ...

Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or mor...

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if ...

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize ...

Some of the conclusions that I draw are very different from the ethical views most people hold today...

If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of expl...

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by co...

The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the m...

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much ...

The moment I entered the bright, buzzing lobby of Men’s House I was overcome by a sense of alienatio...

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are...

We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any n...

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths....

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which lo...

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do somethin...

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of o...

Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if ...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousand...

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really pr...

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking ineq...