Progress Quotes

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

Activity does not necessarily equal progress.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

There is no progress in art.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

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.

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static.

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

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

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

One can not impede scientific progress.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.