Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it,… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. On the other hand, it is of little use to take criticism in a… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so… — Jim Propp Copy Share Image
Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that's empowering, and not detrimental to social progress.… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
Having served as a member of parliament for more than two decades, I'm well aware that there can be genuine constraints that… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to… — Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Copy Share Image
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things… — Bernard of Chartres Copy Share Image
You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“We all start somewhere; language is communication; and data is derived for nourishment. When anything is over our heads, it's time to… — Bella Bloom Copy Share Image
“Suffering drives progress.- The source of all suffering is the desire for a change in state. This is also the source of… — James Clear Copy Share Image
There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was Ranjith who inspired me to be a film maker. And ever since I began the shoot, he is keeping a… — Joy Mathew Copy Share Image
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a… — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
Although the Trump administration cannot halt global progress on climate change, it can still hurt the U.S. economy and the United States'… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
I left DOJ's leadership back in 2005. At the time, we were still building our national security capabilities in the wake of… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
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