Progress Quotes - Page 17

• The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

  Rene Descartes

  Running, Mind, Aberration

  Rene Descartes, Voltaire (2010). “French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

  Michael Jordan

  Success, Basketball, Baseball

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• It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

  Mary McAleese

  Years, Generations, Lasts

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• The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  War, Let It Go, Credit

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

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• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Iraq, Goal, President

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• I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

  Sean Elliott

  Simple, Doctors, Office

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• Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Real, Understanding Nature, Intuition

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

  Michael Arad

  Years, Names, Two

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• What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Recovery, Democracy, Facts

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• We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

  Michael Dorris

  Assuming, Currents, Planets

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

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• How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

  Nate Mendel

  Risk, Hiv, Research

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back", www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2000.

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• Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.

  Dr. An Wang

  Lines, Trends, Clue

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• God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Art, Moving, Unfinished Work

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• A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

  Bill Mauldin

  Kids, Soldier, Littles

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• There can be no progress on climate change without strong and aggressive leadership from the White House.  While we have been frustrated that it took until now, we find that the President’s plan contains plenty of smart proposals and pathways for action. Stonyfield stands firmly behind the President's vision.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Strong, Smart, White

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• We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Mean, Opposites

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• A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Hero, Static, Grows

  "Struggle: The Life and Exploits of Commander Richard E. Byrd". Book by Charles John Vincent Murphy, 1928.

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• At times, to make progress, you end up offending people. And people were offended by many things I have done over the years. But I did what I felt was right, especially from an art and creative point of view.

  Dov Charney

  Art, Views, Offending

  "Here's The Autobiography Of The Controversial CEO American Apparel Just Fired" by Dov Charney, www.businessinsider.com. June 19, 2014.

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• Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Stupid, Opportunity

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.106, Gibbs Smith

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• Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

  Norman O. Brown

  Ideas, Unhappy, Calling

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

  Joanna Macy

  Hero, Heart, Adventure

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• Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information system to alert us to these grand events; they will hit us in the face. Another good excuse for ignoring the literature is that, since everyone has strong beliefs about fundamentals but can't support those beliefs rationally or consistently convince non-believers, computer science is actually a religion.

  Philip Greenspun

  Strong, Book, Support

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• From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.

  Jean Giono

  Cities, Long, House

  Jean Giono (2013). “Blue Boy”, p.150, Read Books Ltd

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• Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Arbitrary, Mediocrity, Levels

  Bruce Barnbaum (2017). “The Art of Photography, 2nd Edition: A Personal Approach to Artistic Expression”, p.165, Rocky Nook, Inc.

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• Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Apology, Biblical

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