Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derrick Bell

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Bob Dylan

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Bonnie Bedelia

As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

Brigham Young

God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.

Artur Davis

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Dick Costolo

What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?

Ed Harris

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

Earl Blumenauer

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Cam Newton

You cannot make progress with excuses.

B. C. Forbes

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

Ashleigh Brilliant

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.

Alfred North Whitehead

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Aldous Huxley

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

Albert Einstein

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Alexander Herzen

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Alexander Hamilton

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Alexander Hamilton

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Adolf Hitler

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

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

Abraham Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

Abbas Kiarostami

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

Adam Smith

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Adam Smith

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Adam Smith

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

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.

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.