Progress Quotes - Page 66

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

Focusing on solutions fuels progress.

We want to be special. We want our place in the cosmos to be central. We want evolution-even godless evolution-to have been directed toward us so that we stand at the pinnacle of nature's ladder of progress. Rewind the tape of life and we want to believe that we (Homo Sapiens) would appear again and again. Would we? Probably not.

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

We are all just a work in progress.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.

The goal is progress, not perfection!

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored, depend upon its adherence to the principles of truth and righteousness.

I like progress but I hate change.