Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.
Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.
In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.
We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.
Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
I’ve led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I’ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I’ve learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of ‘maternal imperative’ is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.
It’s a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I’m a work in progress; I have revelations every day.
I’ve always been about progress and accomplishment. When you set your mind toward a goal, you continue to have follow-through.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation’s legacy.
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.
The best road to progress is freedom’s road.
I don’t believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.
In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year’s Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
I think people underrate the importance of investing in your communication skills as a way to progress in your career.
It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.
It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.
I learned that it’s important to treat yourself like a work in progress, to think about how you can improve, to listen to feedback.
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
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.
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development; it is vital to our existence.
But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There’s always a hidden agenda.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
If we’re gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we’ve fallen, and how we’ve declined under Bush.
We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that’s what I call progress.
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
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.
The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can’t raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can’t cut anything, we’re obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.
I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.
Some people think it’s a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress has to benefit everybody or even most people. It’s possible that productivity can go up and the economic pie gets bigger, but the majority of people don’t share in that gain.
