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Progress

Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

Chapman, John Jay

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Picasso, Pablo

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

Progress is the stride of God.

Hugo, Victor

The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Hubbard, Elbert

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Lincoln, Abraham

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Mumford, Lewis

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Kennedy, John F.

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Gordimer, Nadine

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New roads; new ruts.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.

Davies, Owen

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Addams, Jane

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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

Barbara Hall

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Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Herzen, Alexander

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I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

Kaiser, Henry J.

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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

Susan Rice

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I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

Roth, Philip

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Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Grenfell, Joyce

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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

Ogden Nash

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Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.

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Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

Miller, Henry

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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

Kraus, Karl

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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Renan, Ernest

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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Allen, Charles M.

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What we call'Progress'is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.

Rogers, Will

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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Nash, Ogden

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It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

Perot, H. Ross

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Why aren't we making any progress towards a crime-free society? We're not making progress because we are too damn busy making excuses.

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When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.

Proverb, Swedish

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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Eliot, George

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.