Progress Quotes - Page 40

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.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

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.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don’t wait for a convenient time. It can’t be overemphasized.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

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.

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.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

The progress has to start now.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.