Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Jolie

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

Annette Funicello

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

Alice Walker

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

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.

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.

Dorothy Day

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

David McCallum

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Coleman Hawkins

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

David Gergen

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

Amartya Sen

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

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

Jerry Angelo

He just didn't progress the way we thought he would. That's the short of it. I'm sure he's as disappointed as we are.

There is a need for them to progress here. It's a very important meeting.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

Pierre Pettigrew

We have to acknowledge the substantial progress that has been made in India,

We made progress, we haven't made as much progress as we'd like to make,

If we're not going to make progress, we're not going to be here,

We're still working. We're making slow progress, but it's a long process.

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've been making progress. That's all I'll say.

Ross Brawn

We need to see how things progress before we make those sort of predictions or scenarios,

Mohamed ElBaradei

Yes, we have seen progress but we need quick progress.

We'll have to wait to see how things progress through the process. We still have a long way to go through the session.

to make progress on reforming their foreign-exchange regime.

Stephen Jay Gould

Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

Stephen Jay Gould

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again.

Paul Tagliabue

We're not making the kind of progress we need to be making. I don't think negotiations are going very well.