Progress Quotes - Page 64

Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.

[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

I don't want to present something that feels too fixated or too restrictive. I'd rather keep it open to evolve. I'm only 24 and who knows who I'll be in a few years. I want my work to progress as naturally as my own growth.

If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

What we want is progress, development, realisation.

Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed