Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coleman Hawkins

There's no such thing as bop music, but there's such a thing as progress.

John Bolton

We didn't get everything we wanted, but we made progress.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.

The progress that some of the manufacturers have been making seems to have stalled.

The progress is such that we can have a provisional separation.

We'll progress him over the weekend in regards to his running, ... and just take it day by day and see how he feels.

Peter Brown

Time is running short for her to show progress.

Ludwig von Mises

Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.

Ludwig von Mises

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.

Bud Selig

We've made some progress on a lot of issues. But progress in the end is when you have a deal.

We've made progress with our over-the-counter application process. But we are still not there yet.

Jeff Heath

We've made progress. We're taking it step by step.

We've made a lot of progress in 2001 and now it's time to grow,

Petrarch

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

My sense is they haven't made much progress.

My response to that is he also has a mile-long record of making progress happen.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Anne Lamott

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

Anne Lamott

The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.

Albert Camus

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

Clayton Christensen

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

We'll stay here as long as we feel we're making progress, ... If we're not making progress, we're not going to stay.

Alex Van Halen

Van Halen is a work in progress.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unless we progress, we regress.

Doug Stanhope

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

e. e. cummings

Progress is a comfortable disease.

e. e. cummings

Nothing recedes like progress.

Confucius

As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

Amartya Sen

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent