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People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

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?

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

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.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

People would rather be praised than criticized but the later may help us make more progress.

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

Philosophically, I feel that India will progress only if we work as teams.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the changes. We don't see these changes, because we see with them.

Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there is a lot of progress. In many other domains, there is very little progress in developing real scientific understanding.

Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.

Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.

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

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

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

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 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.

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 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 is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

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

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

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

Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.