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• To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Achieve, Contact

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• Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Men, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.65, Wordsworth Editions

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• Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.

  William J. Clinton

  Circles, People, Possible Change

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• Things do not change; we change.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Dance, Wisdom, Time

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1 (1738) l. 53

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• It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Ballet

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Technology, Technological Advancement

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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• The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wise, Men, Law

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

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• Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Development, Action

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• How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

  Niels Bohr

  Thinking, Physics, Wonderful

  "Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed". Book by Ruth Moore, 1966.

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• We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Live Life, Mean

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• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Nice, Inspiration

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, People, Listening

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• Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Perfect, Mediocrity

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

  Robert Browning

  Hope, Men, Beast

  'A Death in the Desert' (1864) l. 586

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

  George Santayana

  Infancy Is, Savages, Improvement

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, History

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

  Henry George

  Real, Luxury, Long

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

  Edmund Burke

  Moving, Fall, Race

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.405, Penguin

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• Learning something new means you have to abandon, for a little while at least, the familiar and comforting. I happen to like this feeling. I remind myself that tomorrow, I will be someone who didn't exist yesterday.

  Nick Stone

  Mean, Learning Something New, Yesterday

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• Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

  Sean William Scott

  May, Lasts, Painting

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• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, Moving On, Clever

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”

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• The walking of Man is falling forwards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Men, Walking

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• Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Poison, Late

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.74

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