Progress Quotes - Page 34

• A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

  John Owen

  Ocean, Rivers, Issues

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.397

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• In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

  Reed Hastings

  Technology, Years, Long

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• So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Suffering, Speak

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Mistake, Thinking

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• I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Heart, Unconditional Love

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• Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Success, Goal, Reaching

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• This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.

  Robert L. Park

  Years, Together, Band

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• We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress."

  Jean Gebser

  Events, Development, Evolution

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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• Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Work, Comfort, Wealth

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• A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do.

  Avicii

  Pride, Night, Thinking

  "Avicii Says His GQ Profile Makes His Fans Look Like Drug Addicts And Jerks" by Connor Simpson, www.businessinsider.com. April 2, 2013.

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• I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

  William Howard Taft

  Christian, Hard Work, Civilization

  William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.

  John Zerzan

  Heart, Technology, People

  John Zerzan (1994). “Future primitive: and other essays”

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• Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of
  such a place?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Life And Death, Degradation

  "Lindbergh Said to Regret Misperceptions Over Jews" by Herber Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 20, 1980.

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• Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Working Together, Allies, United States

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• Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

  Charlie Munger

  Size, Wealth, Determine

  ""Here's a 10 point plan to invest like Charlie Munger" by John Szramiak". www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2016.

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• Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure.  That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

  Matthew Syed

  Foundation, Essentials, Experts

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• If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

  Dan Gable

  Attitude, Laziness, Habit

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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• As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Self, Europe, Paris

  "Q &A with Wolfgang Schäuble". Interview with Derek Scally, www.irishtimes.com. August 24, 2012.

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• God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

  Joyce Meyer

  Law, Growth, Discouraged

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2012

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• It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Home

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.86, Yale University Press

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• You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.

  Ueli Steck

  Moving, Keep Moving

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• No matter what you've gone through in the past, no matter how many setbacks you've suffered or who or what has tried to thwart your progress, today is a new day, and God wants to do a new thing in your life.

  Joel Osteen

  Past, New Day, Gone

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• If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Rights, Finals

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

  Larry Wall

  Boring, Crank, Turns

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Ideas

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