Best 2666 quotes in «progress quotes» category

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.

That wall, embodied in the First Amendment, is perhaps America's most important contribution to political progress on this planet.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us.

The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

The biblical picture is not one of an upward, linear progress or a precipitous, downward decline. It is a more complicated picture of a fallen world in which there is a gospel of power.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the size of the economy doubled because of technological progress and growth, the two would roughly cancel out and it would all be a totally manageable situation.

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.

The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.