Progress Quotes
3066 quotes by 1958 authors
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I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus…
— Edward Weston
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I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for…
— Donald Barthelme
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There is no progress in art.
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then…
— Charles Portis
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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's…
— Elihu Root
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Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere…
— John L. Lewis
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.
— Rosie Perez
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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of…
— Stephen Bayley
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The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because…
— Fernand Leger
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to…
— Soong May-ling
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The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not…
— James F. Byrnes
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Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the…
— Mary Douglas
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Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are…
— Julian Baggini
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I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature…
— Pratibha Patil
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy…
— Liu Xiaobo
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My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.
— Craig Reucassel
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