Progress famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
-- Aberjhani -
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
-- Abigail Johnson -
As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.
-- Abraham Foxman -
I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.
-- Ace Hood -
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
-- Adam Clarke -
We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.
-- Adam Savage -
A great many of us have confused change with progress.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
-- Adrian Tchaikovsky -
Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion ("expansion,", Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations ("s'étendre la méfiance et la haine entre," Fr.), that vie with one another ("qui rivalisent à l'envi," Fr.), by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder ("engins meurtriers", Fr.).
-- African Spir -
Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
-- African Spir -
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
-- Aga Khan IV -
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
-- Aga Khan IV -
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
-- Agnes Martin -
Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.
-- Akbar -
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
-- Alan Dundes -
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
-- Alan Moore -
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
-- Alan Perlis -
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
-- Alan Watts -
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
-- Albert Einstein -
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.
-- Albert Einstein -
He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth . . . . This is the divine mission of America . . . . We are trustees of the world's progress, guardians of its righteous peace. [Progressive]
-- Albert J. Beveridge -
I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.
-- Albert Wynn -
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
-- Alberto Fujimori -
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.
-- Aldous Huxley -
As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.
-- Alex Caceres -
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
-- Alexander Herzen -
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Error is the price we pay for progress.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.
-- Ali Banisadr -
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.
-- Allen Toussaint -
Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
-- Alvin Toffler -
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo -
The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.
-- Amilcar Cabral -
Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.
-- Amin Maalouf -
The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.
-- Amr Moussa -
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
-- Amy Lowell -
I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.
-- Amy Smart -
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
-- Anais Nin -
Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite. Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana.
-- Anandamayi Ma -
Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?
-- Anatol Rapoport -
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.
-- Anatole Broyard -
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.
-- Andre Michel Lwoff -
I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.
-- Angela Bettis -
No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit of perfection. Therefore if you want to begin and to receive this divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection, and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.
-- Angela of Foligno -
I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.
-- Ani DiFranco -
The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.
-- Ann Douglas -
Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.
-- Anna Olson -
New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
-- Anne Lamott -
When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
-- Anne Lamott -
The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.
-- Anne Truitt -
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
-- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune -
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, "Simba!
-- Annie Dillard -
There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.
-- Annie Dillard -
Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.
-- Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart -
Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.
-- Anuj -
Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress
-- Anuj -
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never, therefore, make any progress.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.
-- Aravind Adiga -
Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.
-- Aristotle -
How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?
-- Arlene Dahl -
How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties.
-- Arnaud Desjardins -
Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from those who don't: You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
-- Arthur Bloch -
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.
-- Arthur Tappan Pierson -
The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
-- Artur Davis -
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
-- Asger Jorn -
My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre.
-- Asher Monroe -
I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.
-- Ashley Greene -
I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee -
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
-- Audre Lorde -
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
-- August Strindberg -
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
-- Auguste Comte -
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.
-- Augustin Thierry -
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.
-- Augustus William Hare -
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.
-- Ayn Rand -
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.
-- Ayn Rand -
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
-- B. R. Ambedkar
