Best 2666 quotes in «progress quotes» category

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

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

Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number of facts. ... Theories are only hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure.  That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

Progress is more important than perfection.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Progress is the ultimate motivation.

Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

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

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul,--this makes life worth living.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.