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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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.