Progress Quotes · Page 70

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

— George Zebrowski

I'm a work in progress. I've started doing spin classes, which always clears my head.

— Susie Dent

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

— Shirley Chisholm

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware…

— Alan Watts

Any player would like to play in the Champions League and progress, that's what I've based my whole career on.

— Callum Wilson

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

— Joe Lonsdale

As I grew older I began to realize that Mississippi really wasn't that bad. The basis for progress has always been there.…

— Mike Espy

I have found progress, personal growth, and new and exciting opportunities in my failure. I've grown more comfortable with the fact that…

— John C. Maxwell

[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ]…

— Francois-Joseph Servois

The idea that we criminalize fellow human beings based on optics, based on the need to progress in politics and gain power,…

— Ava DuVernay

“There is no progress: there is perpetual movement, displacement, which is circular, spiral, endless. Every man has his own destiny: the only…

— Henry Miller

“Progress after 1970 continued but focused more narrowly on entertainment, communication, and information technology, in which areas progress did not arrive with…

— Robert J. Gordon

People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table…

— Charlotte Moss

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the…

— Chris Lowe

After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national…

— Cameron Sinclair

“Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search…

— Neil Armstrong

The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited…

— Swami Vivekananda

If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the…

— Charles Fort

If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of…

— Robert Fulghum

People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of…

— Stephen Wolfram

I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress…

— Wendy Kopp

The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country calls…

— Arundhati Roy

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

— John Bardeen

“Progress is first conceived in the mind, nature and safeguard your thought patterns.”

— Wayne Chirisa

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a…

— Charles Babbage

“Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions…

— Joe Lonsdale

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell…

— Ludwig von Mises

A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the…

— Canibus

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

— Linda Ronstadt

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

— David McCallum

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may…

— Jenny Shipley

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from…

— Harold Bridgwood Walker

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

— Anonymous

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

— Alan Sugar

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

— Wynton Marsalis