Progress Quotes - Page 31

• But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

  Janet Suzman

  Son, Science, Spheres

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• Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Live Concerts, Understanding, Halls

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• The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.

  Kelly Miller

  War, Growing Stronger, Years

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  Ed Miliband

  Wisdom, Challenges, Important

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Real, Women, Government

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• ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

  George Henry Lewes

  Hygiene, Literature, Causes

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Two, Hype, People

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• There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

  Steve Odland

  Years, Sea, Focus

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• No libraries, no progress.

  Willard Scott

  Library

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• If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.

  Robert Wright

  Change, Strong, War

  Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.314, Vintage

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• I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.

  Henry Ford

  Real, Might, Lean Manufacturing

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.44, 谷月社

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• Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Responsibility, People, Innovation

  "Rethinking Marketing: Sustainable Marketing Enterprise in Asia". Book by Philip Kotler, p. 82., 2012.

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• It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Freedom, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The Value of Science". Public address at the National Academy of Sciences, published in "What Do You Care What Other People Think" (1988), Autumn 1955.

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• Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.

  Terry Winograd

  Meaningful, Understanding, Asking

  Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores (1986). “Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design”, p.13, Intellect Books

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• The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

  Julian Simon

  Past, Imagination, Fuel

  Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities

  Tom Harkin

  Agreement, Iraq, Fire

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• Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

  Bergen Evans

  Reflection, Vocabulary, Intellectual

  Bergen Evans (1963). “The word-a-day vocabulary builder”, Ballantine Books

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• The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Learning, Grace, Curiosity

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• Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

  Vito Fossella

  Moving, Rights, Ukraine

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• President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Usa, Diversity, President

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• The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing ... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Feet, People, Snow

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• What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Hope, Father, Giving

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• It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wisdom, Views, Waiting

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 7 : Majority Rules, 1960.

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• Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your consciousness heavy, insensitive; and you need a very sensitive consciousness - very light, very loving, very compassionate. It is difficult for a non-vegetarian to be compassionate; and without being compassionate and loving you will be hindering your own progress.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Vegetarianism, Loving You

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