Progress Quotes - Page 5

We are confusing making “progress” with eradicating the larger problem.

Carlos Wallace

I don't like straight lines: men make them.

Richard Adams

Progress isn’t always good. There’s a reason why ‘breakneck speed’ is described as such.

Fennel Hudson

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.

Chris Matakas

Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.

Solange nicole

On Tuesday December seventh a lot of good things happened: they took the trach out, took the cast off my leg, and my PT, Maria, had me standing.

Amy Rankin

Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages.“Why don’t we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?” he said.And Ridcully responded with the traditional response.“It’s got to be worth a try,” he said.

Terry Pratchett

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.

Nityananda Das

Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.

John Stahl-Wert

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.

John Gray

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

Alexander McCall Smith

We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C.S. Lewis

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

Theodore Roosevelt

The years of disillusion, the long debate of who-belongs-to-who, gathered at the mighty feet of the Bangladesh Liberation War like flood waters rising, gathering thick weeds and crusty dirt and pulling it all in one direction. At times, when the body count was high and the air tasted like bloody ash, the way mass graves smell, Sariyah had wondered what progress was supposed to taste like. Often it tasted like unanswered questions, stuck in the teeth. Bangladesh had given her the true answer, though: progress at its best is home-grown. It should taste like joy – pure, unhindered joy. Like the freshest sun-ripened mango on a tree, a little sunrise in her palm.

Katherine Russell

There is no such thing as progress or regress. The world is not getting better and better, nor is it getting worse and worse. It is simply moving along into the future, reiterating in different configurations the patterns that have already occurred. We can’t help but play a role in this unfolding drama, but it is a mistake to think that what we do makes any difference to the grand scheme of things.

John Marmysz

Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life.

Erich Fromm

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

June Jordan

It is important to understand where to draw a line between progress and perfection.

Abhishek Ratna

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Damon Galgut

If only we can agree that us mortal human beings only have relevance when there are opposing forces and ideas then we would not be so consumed with tribalism. It is our focus on what others do or say that gives them meaning and relevance. Light that points to the clear sky is consumed by darkness.. In the absence of a reflective object light has no relevance.. Friction/resistance is necessary for forward movement.

Lennox D.Lampkin

Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.

Kristen Henderson

The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort.

Sunday Adelaja

As a society, we've become suspicious of such acts. Out of ignorance or laziness or timidity, we've turned the Luddites into caricatures, emblems of backwardness. We assume that anyone who rejects a new tool in favor of an older one is guilty of nostalgia, of making choices sentimentally rather than rationally. But the real sentimental fallacy is the assumption that the new thing is always better suited to our purposes and intentions than the old thing. That's the view of a child, naive and pliable. What makes one tool superior to another has nothing to do with how new it is. What matters is how it enlarges us or diminishes us, how it shapes our experience of nature and culture and one another. To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly.

Nicholas Carr

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

Kate Atkinson

Those who hear this solemn call of life and respond with the corresponding supply receive progress in life.

Sunday Adelaja

Progress, You can see how well you are doing on achieving your goals, after you start something.

Auliq-Ice

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn’t have yards or even feet of success to show off.

David Baldacci

The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.

Thomas Jefferson

It's your duty to build your brand daily not in a day

Bernard Kelvin Clive

One step is better than no steps.

Rebecca Brockway quoting 14-year-old son Carlino

There is no need for me to worry, I've already been here somany times and each time I have made it throughalive

Michael Dodson Jr.

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

Pearl Zhu

Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.

Pearl Zhu

It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.

William Pène du Bois

O what we ben! And what we come to!

Russell Hoban

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

Isaac Asimov

Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

Barry Schwartz

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.

Milan Kundera

One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.

Jeanette Winterson

Those who ignore the destructive potential of new technologies can do so only because they ignore history . Pogroms are as old as Christendom , but without railways, the telegraph and poison gas there could have been no Holocaust. (..) Scientific fundamentalism claim that science is the disinterested pursuit of the truth. But to represent science in this way is to disregard the human needs science serves. Among us science serves two needs: for hope and censorship. Today only science supports the myth of progress. If people cling to the hope of progress, it is not so much from genuine belief as from fear of what may come if they give it up.

John Gray

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

Eugene V. Debs

One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.

Ken Jennings

Progress is a wonderful thing of course, and I can appreciate the lactiferins that are sprinkled on the pasture to turn the grass to cheese. And yet this lack of cows, however rational it may be, gives one the feeling that the fields and meadows, deprived of their phlegmatic, bemusedly ruminating presence, are pitifully empty.

Stanisław Lem

Tenacity is the mother of progress.

Valerie M. Hudson

To me love is like a environment that affords everyone’s growth, today I will not hold onto those who love me, when I experience true love I can be blamable for the right environment for the people to progress in their lives.

Bharath Mamidoju

Love doesn’t mean a commitment all the time, spread love for progress.

Bharath Mamidoju

Learning to let go of anyone that does not add to your progress is affirming your inner sense of purpose. Just Keep moving!

Chinonye J. Chidolue

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.

Gina Barreca

Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.

Pearl Zhu

Even a baby step taken is in the right direction is PROGRESS

Harrish Sairaman

Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or more were effaced, and there he was, the alert and predatory sub-human, further from what she believed man should be like than the naked savage, because the savage was tractable, while this creature, wearing the armor of his own rigid barbaric culture, consciously defied progress. And that was what Stenham saw, too; to him the boy was a perfect symbol of human backwardness, and excited his praise precisely because he was “pure”: there was no room in his personality for anything that mankind had not already fully developed long ago. To him he was a consolation, a living proof that today’s triumph was not yet total; he personified Stenham’s infantile hope that time might still be halted and man sent back to his origins.

Paul Bowles

Progress is a collection of expectations set and met.

Ashlecka Aumrivani

When you keep seeking to improve, you will never get bored with your craft.

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

a Philosopher could not grasp the modern idea of progress ... until he was willing to abandon ancestor worship, until he analyzed away his inferiority complex toward the past, and realized that his own generation was superior to any yet known

Carl Lotus Becker

The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallowing in it. It’s still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We’ve invented a few things that make noises, but we haven’t invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions.

Noël Coward

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

Emil M. Cioran

Progress was never meant to be stinted, and even failures weren’t to be destroyed.

Elise Kova

Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like "forward" and "farther" are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word "forward" has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)

Milan Kundera

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

Victor Hugo

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