Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We still have a ways to go. I think we're making progress, but it's early.

The blip is getting brighter. We seem to be making progress.

It's been a work in progress but they're starting to understand things.

Miles O'Brien

Doesn't look like much progress has been made there.

Then we'll see if we can get him into some sort of games. It's time for him to progress a little bit.

Dusty Baker

It's still a work in progress a little bit.

Talks are continuing, progress is being made. But it all takes a long time.

Talks are continuing, and we are making progress.

Talks are constructive, and progress is being made.

It's disappointing. It doesn't seem like significant progress has been made or is about to be made.

Gray Davis

They want to get rid of me to get rid of the progress, ... terminate the 'Terminator'.

We had another long day. We made a little progress but I must say we didn't make enough progress.

Alan Cohen

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Neil Turok

That's progress-when we prove things wrong.

Noam Chomsky

Labor #‎ Unions are the leading force for #‎ democratization and #‎ progress .

Cassandra Clare

Ma'am," Magnus said, advancing. "I must counsel you not to exit the carriage while a demon-slaying is in progress.

Christopher Hitchens

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Julia Cameron

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Ovid

What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

Paul Nitze

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

Mary J. Blige

We are all just a work in progress.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

Juan Williams

If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy.

Milton Friedman

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

Julian Barnes

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Julian Barnes

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

Kris Carr

No matter how you feel, you made progress today.

Nick Nolte

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.