Progress Quotes - Page 22

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

  Charles Mengel Allen

  Technology, Race, Want

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• No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Play, Style, Tactics

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• The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

  Cullen Murphy

  Fall, Makeup, Rome

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• Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

  Peter Camejo

  Party, America, People

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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

  Robin Sharma

  Excuse, Steady, Steady Progress

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 22, 2013

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• To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today.

  Jim Rohn

  Keys, Today, Steps

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• The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

  Bryan Caplan

  Social

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• Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

  Carl Jung

  Errors, Important, Conditions

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1966). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Freud and psychoanalysis”

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• Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Growth, Gourds, Divine

  Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

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• On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Iraq, Democracy

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• Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Community, Political

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• Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Beautiful, Law, Live For Today

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• Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation.

  Ernest Holmes

  Vision, Pathways, Doe

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• Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  Death, Sleep, Natural

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• Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Rebirth, Reincarnation

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• As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Thinking, Long

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Humans, Human Rights

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• Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Wall, Becoming, Discouraged

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• Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Frustration, Men, History

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• In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Giving, Disease

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

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• The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

  Maude Royden

  Prayer, Party, Church

  Speech at Queen's Hall, London, 16 July 1917

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• To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

  Ryuho Okawa

  Happiness, Reflection, Self

  Ryuho Okawa (2005). “The Philosophy of Progress: How to Develop Infinite Prosperity”, p.9, Lantern Books

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• In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reading, Saws, Etc

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• Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

  Henry George

  Fighting, Water, Society

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.358, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

  Robin Sharma

  Uncomfortable, Bases, Ifs

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