Progress Quotes

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

I would say national security is work in progress.

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.