Progress Quotes - Page 40

• Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

  Craig Reucassel

  Way, Ibm, Decades

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• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Who I Am, Names, Determined

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Common Purpose

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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• There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  Barbara Amiel

  Ideas, Confusion, Peculiar

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• He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

  Immanuel Kant

  Religion, Atheism, Moral

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• We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

  Donna Edwards

  Men, America, Perfect

  "What I've Learned: Representative Donna Edwards (D, Md.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Wisdom, Party, Independent

  Retirement speech. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), April 11, 1907.

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• I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people

  Joseph Pulitzer

  People, Mind, Noble

  "Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners". Book by Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage (p. 9), 1999.

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• With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

  Claude Bernard

  Real, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Persistence

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• You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

  Jackson Browne

  Peace, War, Gun

  Song: Soldier Of Plenty, Album: Lives in the Balance, 1986

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• I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Beautiful, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

  Andrew Card

  Teaching, School, America

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, multimedia.cbs.com. January 21, 2001.

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• The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

  Christopher Lasch

  Common Sense, Community, Enlightenment

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• The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Expansion, Stories

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Van Halen is a work in progress.

  Alex Van Halen

  Vans, Work In Progress, Van Halen

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• I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Block, Character, Savages

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• Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

  Connie Mack IV

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• The progress in Iraq has not been without cost.

  Virgil Goode

  Iraq, Cost

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• Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

  Humphry Davy

  Views, Mind, Triumph

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• I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Thinking, Saws, Conflict

  "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.

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• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of Seinfeld, it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just take time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  Zachary Knighton

  Mean, People, Looks

  "Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton 'Happy Endings' interview: 'This is the anti-romantic comedy'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, Men

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• This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Culture, Satisfaction, Oppression

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.78, Beacon Press

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• What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.

  Terence McKenna

  Faith, Believe, Mean

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