Progress Quotes - Page 26

• That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Mind, Use, Behinds

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• I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.

  Toni Collette

  Differences, Long, Making A Difference

  "Haiti Is Transforming, But Grinding Poverty Remains for Many" by Toni Collette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivation, Sight, Giving

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• Here's what you must do. It's pretty simple, really, but I didn't say easy. It's what sets those who succeed apart from those who don't: You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Simple, Desire

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revis”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Goal, Frustrated, Victory

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• There are no limits to growth and human progress
  when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Men, Growth

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

  Simon Sinek

  Curiosity, Looks, World

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2010

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• Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

  Salvador Dali

  Genius, Mankind, Dies

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• The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Stupid, Political Language, Usual

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• To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

  Lewis Carroll

  Helping Others, Giving, Goal

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Reading, Mind, Realization

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

  Bruce Lee

  Thinking, Mma, Looks

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, Tuttle Publishing

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• Focus on progress not perfection.

  Bill Phillips

  Progress Not Perfection, Focus, Perfection

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• An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

  Nelson Mandela

  Real, Discipline, Organisation

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• All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Spirit, Landmarks

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

  Larry Page

  Inspirational, Dream, Crazy

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• Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

  Jim Rohn

  Mind, Together, Fuel

  Jim Rohn (2013). “7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher”, p.150, Harmony

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• In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Winning, Race

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Citizens

  Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

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• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

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• Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

  Vannevar Bush

  Play, Choices, Curiosity

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.7

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• In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

  Ruth First

  Book, Lists, Corny

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• Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

  Vernor Vinge

  Ideas, Corny, Should

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• How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

  John Maeda

  What Matters, Cities, Benefits

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• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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