Progress Quotes - Page 39

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in 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.

You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

It was the only way to progress, to stop.

What is amazing is how stuck people are in their own habits. It is really hard to get people out of their habits. But once they shift, it also is amazing how rapid the progress can be.

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!