Progress Quotes

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.

She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.

I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.

Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.

By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.

One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!