Progress Quotations

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

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.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

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.

We haven't had the success we had hoped to achieve. Josh McDaniels is the head coach of the Broncos and you always strive for stability at that position. However, with five games left in the 2010 season, we will continue to monitor the progress of the team and evaluate what's in the best interest of this franchise.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.

I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress

In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.

The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's 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.

I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.

A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.