Progress Quotes - Page 65

I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

Most progress is most failure.

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since when has any one made it appear that shackled thought could get on better than that which is free? Brains are a great misfortune if one is never to use them.

(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded. . . Will those people ever progress, even with our help?

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

There is no reason to be disappointed. India will progress very fast and the skills of our youth will take India ahead.

India's role is not to interfere in what Nepal does but to support Nepal in their development. Nepal should scale new heights of progress.

Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress.