Progress Quotes - Page 30

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice

The price of progress is trouble.

You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Progress requires change.

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?

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.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

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 believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.