Progress Quotes

The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.

These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.

People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.

A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

Pushing legislation that would undercut our troops just as we're beginning to make progress in Baghdad.

I believe we're making really good progress in Iraq.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Progress is the mother of problems.

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means "in no case", I do not see that any progress has been made.

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

There is no history of how bad became better.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.