Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are still in discussions. And progress is being made.

we didn't make as much progress as we planned.

John F. Kerry

There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.

John O'Donohue

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

John Dewey

A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

John Dewey

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

John Bates Clark

As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation points become more frequent, and that it culminates where they are changed to marks of positive dissent. I venture to record the opinion that the value of the work reaches a maximum in a passage that is demonstrably incorrect.

Lord Acton

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Elaine Stritch

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.

Edward de Bono

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

Edward Albee

Progress is a set of assumptions.

Khalil Gibran

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

Kevin A. Ford

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

Ludwig Quidde

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

Lucy Stone

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

One can not impede scientific progress.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

Freda Adler

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

Olympia Snowe

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Octavio Paz

The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.

Emile M. Cioran

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Eric Ries

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

Epictetus

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

Henry Ward Beecher

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Henry J. Kaiser

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

Emma Watson

Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress.

At the same time, I think, we understand that value of making progress where we can.

Ayn Rand

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.