Progress Quotes

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

It's fascinating to watch the progress that is made during previews. The coolest thing is watching the actors take over the show, and make it there own.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

We are pleased with the very positive reception our offer has received, and are confident that progress is being made towards establishing the regulatory framework for the offer.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

Dave Jones got to the final last year and lost in the semi-final this year, so progress has definitely been made

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.