Best 2666 quotes in «progress quotes» category

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

Without death there would be very little progress.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's motherhood that holds women back, but often the big roadblock is the lack of executive presence.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

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

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

You cannot make progress with excuses.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where there has been progress and there has been change.

You have as great an opportunity for satisfaction in the performance of your duty as I do in mine. The progress of this work will be determined by our joint efforts. Whatever your calling, it is as fraught with the same kind of opportunity to accomplish good as is mine. What is really important is that this is the work of the Master. Our work is to go about doing good as did He.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

You have to stick to your goals of progress.

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors

You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.