Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
Nothing recedes like progress.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t.
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, ‘What did I get out of it?’ You look around, and the place is better, and that’s it.
In fairness, Latin America’s elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability, curbed flagrant human rights violations, and sought to build democratic political institutions.
As I’ve learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
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.
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, ‘the ability to conceive failure as progress.’
It’s no good kicking progress In the teeth – there’s nothing wrong with a tractor.
Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
There’s a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.
A lot of the progress in machine learning – and this is an unpopular opinion in academia – is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.
It’s time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don’t see any argument to go back to 1600.
Christians and non-Christian voters alike have become far too comfortable slinging rocks at the expense of making any real political or social progress.
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
I am working hard to keep making progress, to always improve.
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour – if I believed in progress, I suppose that’s what I’d call it.
I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn’t want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.
Punjab believes that every province has equal rights, and when all provinces will make progress, Pakistan will make progress.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.
If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.
It’s only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There’s plenty of cool comics with female characters… But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.
Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focus on the Word and the Will of God. While we are on the go, I mean, while we are on the mission, we need to sometimes stop at intervals to assess our progress and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead.
I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.
I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me.
The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn’t really ever stop. There’s always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I’m always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
I work really hard, and muscles don’t come naturally for me, so I like to show my progress and encourage others.
When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they’re doing.
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.
The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn’t agree more.
There is simply no way we are going to make progress on the enormous challenges we face without making hard choices. It’s impossible.
I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.
Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
