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And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn't go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter

The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.