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Progress

Today's progress was yesterday's plan.

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Best Quotes about Progress

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

Roth, Philip

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

A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Havelock Ellis

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

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Orwell, George

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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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Swedish

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

Simms, William Gilmore

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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

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Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.

Mayfield, Harold

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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

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All progress is experimental.

Chapman, John Jay

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Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.

Hugo, Victor

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

Plato

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

Addams, Jane

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.

Proverb

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

Ogden Nash

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Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Pantanjali

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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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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Harris, Sidney J.