Progress Quotes - Page 45

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?

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

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

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

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

As a student of life I just want to be constantly progressing mentally, physically, and spiritually.

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

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

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution, is the current field of the presidential candidates. We started off with Washington and Adams and Jefferson and then we had Lincoln, and now we moved ahead and look where we are now.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

We do more talking progress than we do progressing.

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.

You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

Progress is the stride of God.