P Quotes
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“Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.”
“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.”
Source: Poets of America
“Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit”
“Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.”
“Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.”
“Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.”
“Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.”
Source: The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
“Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.”
“Progress derives out of consistently doing the things that matter.”
“Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.”
“Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its preservation. Can we teach children to look at a flower and see all the things it represents: beauty, the health of an ecosystem, and the potential for healing?”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Progress does not mean that we will ever reach a paradisiacal end state where everything will be optimal for everyone everywhere. New problems will arise, and they will have to be solved, however imperfectly, by future generations. As such, the world will never be a perfect place. After all, the beings who inhabit it are themselves imperfect. As the German philosopher and advocate of gradual human progress Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) observed in 1784, “From such crooked timber as humankind is made of nothing entirely straight can be made.”
Source: Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
“Progress does not occur without change.”
Source: To See How the Leader Is Doing, Look at the People: Lesson 9 from Leadership Gold
“Progress does take time, it doesn’t matter how slowly or fast you go, it will sure come”.”
“Progress equals happiness.”
“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”
“Progress favors the brave.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Progress first requires a step to be taken.”
“Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.”
“Progress for the people can be achieved through education as well as economic empowerment.”
“Progress grows out of motion.”
“Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical”
“Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.”
Source: Problems of Empiricism: Volume 2: Philosophical Papers
“Progress has been much more general than retrogression”
Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.”
“Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."”
“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.”
“Progress,' he said with reverence, 'will lighten up the gloom, for that is what progress is for, as - if you'll pardon me - the arsehole is for shitting. It will be brighter and brighter, and we shall fear less and less the darkness and the Evil hidden in it. And a day will come, perhaps, when we shall stop believing at all that something is lurking in the darkness. We shall laugh at such fears. Call them childish. Be ashamed of them! But darkness will always, always exist. And there will always be Evil in the darkness, always be fangs and claws, death and blood in the darkness.”
Source: Pani Jeziora
“Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.”
Source: Self-help
“Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.”
Source: Georges Braque
“Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”
Source: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
“Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information system to alert us to these grand events; they will hit us in the face. Another good excuse for ignoring the literature is that, since everyone has strong beliefs about fundamentals but can't support those beliefs rationally or consistently convince non-believers, computer science is actually a religion.”
“Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.”
“Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one was, let alone progress; and there were few men who dared to say they had found God. It was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a distance from this world and clouded with such uncertainty.”
Source: The Rosemary Tree
“Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“Progress in Iraq has always been about teams of people and teams of teams - and ultimately about young men and women, Iraqi as well as people from the coalition.”
“Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.”
“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!”
“Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.”
“Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.”
“Progress in science is guided by a sense of curiosity, or the desire to discover what is currently unknown. On the other hand, progress in technology is guided by a sense of public duty, or the desire to be useful to people.”
“Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.”
“Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.”
“Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.”
“Progress in the science of High Altitude Diseases (HAD) has been lost due to the professional astronomy cover-up of their sickened observatory workers.”
“Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition