Progress Quotes - Page 75

It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -

The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

State-controlled Associated Press: 'The gross domestic product declines 1% in the second quarter, better than expected.' The bottom line is the economy is still shrinking! It's contracting. There's negative growth. One percent, big whoop, we're supposed to feel happy about this? The only thing that would make me happy about this is if I saw a story that said the government shrunk by 1%. Then we'd be making progress.

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

Cutting edges are always a little rough.

The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.

The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead.

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'