“What's most striking is that the world as a whole has made remarkable progress against hunger, poverty and disease. I believe in God, and I see that hundreds of millions of people have escaped from poverty in places like Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Brazil and Britain. That's why, for me, it makes sense that this is God moving in our history.” PeopleWorldBelieveMovingI BelievePovertyProgressHungerMake SenseRemarkableBelieve In GodI Believe In GodEthiopia Author:David Beckmann
“African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way that will result in substantial help for people in need during the economic crisis. And then as the economy recovers, we can see dramatic progress against hunger and poverty.” PeopleThinkingHelpingOpportunityPovertyEconomyProgressEconomicCrisisHungerAfrican AmericanDramatic Author:David Beckmann
“Why is nobody questioning the sanity or suicidal tendencies of Everest ascenders? It's kind of a question of framing: How do you frame these activities? We frame them as freedom-loving, exciting, progressing sports and they are. But there are other ways to frame it. It's also true that these young men, neurologists say that their frontal lobes aren't developed yet - the long-term planning part of the brain.” MenKindSportsBrainProgressExcitingPlanningSanityQuestioningSuicidalFraming Author:Lucy Walker
“Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy because you'd never be able to reach it. You can incrementally improve your life, but you never quite experience the glamour. You never quite get to your utopia, or whatever it is. And once you realize that you can be quite Buddhist about it, and say, "Well, okay, I'm just going to keep detached from it all."” RealizingProgressOkayUnhappyBuddhistNever QuitGlamourUtopia Author:Momus
“We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find the meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.” TryingProgressEconomicMeaningful Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Because we don't know that much about what has happened before, it's useful. But either we will recover and progress, or the alternative is that it's all downhill from here. So I would just as soon believe, in my optimistic Midwestern American way, that we will recover and maybe even make lemonade out of the lemons that we are faced with.” BelieveProgressOptimisticLemonsLemonade Author:Kurt Andersen
“I've never been trained as an actress, so it's all instinct. I just let myself go into this kind of a free fall. Sometimes I feel scared, or out of my element - like everyone else knows what they're doing but me. I don't know . . . Maybe I function well with fear or I like to be faced with a challenge . . . I think I'm just a work in progress.” ThinkingKindSometimesFallChallengesProgressInstinctScaredWork In Progress Author:January Jones
“You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do it. The real question is what to do with the technology. You can use exactly the same technology for very different social and political purposes. So I think people shouldn't be focused on the question of how to stop technological progress because this is impossible. Instead the question should be what kind of usage to make of the new technology. And here we still have quite a lot of power to influence the direction it's taking.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentRealCountryPoliticalPurposeTechnologyProgressImpossibleInfluenceFocusedArtificial IntelligenceTechnologicalNew Technology Author:Matt Haig
“When you create stuff, you're always going to be progressing and where you're at a year down the line, as the creator, it's always going to feel immature. You're going to notice the flaws and the things that you've learned in that year aren't going to be there. So, I think it's important to see stuff as a capture of time - that's what I was doing at that time - and not be ashamed of it. That's how I try to approach music.” ThinkingTryingImportantProgressAshamedFlawsImmature Author:Tom Odell
“I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated. And if we are looking at the region as a whole and communicating a message to the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are ready to initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest, then I think that we can make significant progress.” ThinkingWorldTermInterestProgressImpossibleConflictCommunicateSignificantMutualAfghanistanPartnershipSyriaMutual Respect Author:Barack Obama
“The most rewarding part of my work is the "Aha" moment, the excitement of discovery and enjoyment of understanding something new - the feeling of being on top of a hill and having a clear view. But most of the time, doing mathematics for me is like being on a long hike with no trail and no end in sight. I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.” LongDifferentMomentsFeelingsUnderstandingProgressMathematicsHillsExcitementEnjoymentProductiveSomething New Author:Maryam Mirzakhani
“I don't want to present something that feels too fixated or too restrictive. I'd rather keep it open to evolve. I'm only 24 and who knows who I'll be in a few years. I want my work to progress as naturally as my own growth.” GrowthProgressEvolve Author:Thomas S. Tait
“Companies doing "business as usual" have to get baseline data on their impact and simultaneously understand what the impacts are. The larger the company, the more challenging that can be - so I empathize with the arduousness of the process. But it can be an exciting and rewarding challenge for all those involved, particularly when you can show progress.” ChallengesProgressExciting Author:Summer Rayne Oakes
“Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the country pick Bombay. Other Indian cities, such as Delhi and Varanasi, have also been bombed recently, but Bombay's significance as the financial capital of the country means that it's the best target for terrorists who're unhappy with India's progress.” PeopleMeanCountryProgressFinancialTerroristUnhappyWelcomeSignificance Author:Suketu Mehta
“We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the bar, huge amount of progress. Let's continue that.” SchoolEffortTeacherProgressFailingGreat Teacher Author:Arne Duncan
“I actually do not think that's how what's happening to our government is going to be stopped. I think people who are willing to be civically engaged and believe in the promises and the progress of the last fifty years that will save this country.” PeopleThinkingBelieveCountryProgressPromise Author:Stephen Colbert
“Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more equality in any field, but I feel like it's slowly happening now. It's just things don't change over night. It's the same for racism, homophobia, xenophobia etc. If you think back even just 15 years and see how different people's mentalities were then, think how much more progress and equality we cab reach in another 15 years.” ThinkingLongDifferentNightProgressRacismMentalityTake TimeOppressedHomophobiaCab Author:Maya Jane Coles
“The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.” TryingProblemPoliticalProgressHamas Author:Susan Rice
“Michael Vick is a work in progress. I think he really is wanting to do the right thing. I think the Philadelphia Eagles have been a great organization for him. He's had some ups and downs. He still has to learn to not put himself in, maybe bad situations, in terms of personal life and friends, and that kind of thing. But all in all, I think he's growing every day.” ThinkingKindTermSituationProgressRight ThingPersonal LifeUps & DownsWork In Progress Author:Tony Dungy
“We know that the African regimes, many African regimes have failed their people and many Africans want regime change, and there are a lot of African leaders who make promises but don't carry them out. I mean, the progress - I mean, it is noble for the rich countries to help Africa, but then the question is: What are African leaders themselves doing to help their own people?” PeopleMeanCountryHelpingLeaderRichProgressPromise Author:George W. Bush
“Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and opportunity, but in working diligently to overcome the odds that hamper our progress. Yes, some of that is self-imposed, and we must confront it; and much of it comes from outside. But without courageous and brilliant black women, our communities are greatly diminished.” MenHelpingLyingHumanityOpportunityBlackCommunityProgressOvercomingBrilliantCourageousBlack Women Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“The quality of health care in Germany is not as good as people sometimes believe it to be. We have problems with chronic diseases. The German system allows too many hospitals and specialists to treat chronic diseases. We do not have enough volume in many institutions to deliver good quality, and we do have fairly strict separations ... between primary physicians, office specialists and hospital specialists. But I think the quality problems can be solved in the next couple of years, and we have made major progress in diabetes, coronary artery disease and pulmonary disease care.” PeopleThinkingBelieveSometimesEnoughProblemCareQualityProgressCoupleOfficeSeparationHealth CareDiabetes Author:Karl Lauterbach
“One of the problems many leaders report is a gap between strategy and execution. Usually this "gap" arises because the so-called "strategy" is a set of financial performance goals, not an approach to overcoming challenges. The two key ways to narrow this gap are to avoid bad strategies that fail to explain how to proceed and to establish a proximate objective - something which can be accomplished and which will open the door to further progress.” ProblemGoalChallengesLeaderProgressFailingOvercomingStrategyFinancialAccomplished Author:Richard P. Rumelt
“I have participated as a leader in many organizations where the leadership culture was just mean - ugly, where competitiveness, and destructive relationships stymied progress. There should be healthy tension and candid debate, but leadership teams need to practice communication, relationship building, emotional intelligence, and be aligned around common purpose to achieve organizational success. Senior leaders, chief executive officers, others need to ensure they are fostering the right environment for leadership otherwise all of that ugliness will trickle through the organization.” MeanPurposeCultureCommonLeaderEnvironmentProgressTeamAchieveBuildingEmotionalCommunicationHealthyUglyDebateTensionSeniorUglinessCompetitivenessOrganizational Author:James Merlino
“The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as puzzles that would give me gems if I could solve the puzzle. So, it made me thoughtful - what should I do differently next time? That was the puzzle. And the gem was some principle for handling the same thing when it came along again, and then I would write it down. And by writing it down and referring to it, and also being able to show it to other people so that we could agree that that was a good way of handling that thing - that was very, very powerful.” PeopleGivingWritingRealityPainPowerfulMistakeProgressAgreePainfulThoughtfulNext TimePuzzlesVery PowerfulGems Author:Ray Dalio
“I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.” ProgressRoughPop Song Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“The steady progress made by North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs is deeply concerning. The US cannot solve this problem alone. However, in order to take steps that could fundamentally affect the North Korean leadership and its decision-making, we need to work even more closely with our allies in the region who feel this threat acutely. I would urge China, in particular, to intensify its leadership role in helping to solve this crisis.” HelpingProblemProgressProgramCrisisThreatSteadyNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Sam Nunn
“From what I understand from talking with older friends and feminists, I think that once I enter the workforce and start to think about marriage and having children, my gender will probably eclipse my feminist identity in terms of marginalization. Discrimination in terms of hiring and in the workplace are still real according to statistics. I also think, as a feminist, figuring out what a relationship based on true and complete equality is will be a challenge. But hopefully by the time I'm dealing with those issues feminists will have made great progress in all of those areas.” ThinkingChildrenRealTermChallengesProgressIdentityFeministGenderDiscriminationHopefullyWorkplaceHiringEclipseHaving Children Author:Julie Zeilinger
“The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants, streets, and technical schools. They were communists and had the same vision for Afghanistan that Stalin and Lenin had for the Soviet Union: Progress is communism plus electrification. And today? Today Kabul gets its electrical power from Uzbekistan, Herat from Iran and Jalalabad from Pakistan.” PeopleCountryTodaySchoolVisionProgressTraditionPlantCommunismCommunistAfghanistanSovietSoviet UnionElectrical Author:Ahmed Rashid
“People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress in that in general. It turned out the problem we had to solve is sort of the reverse of the problem people usually have to solve. People usually have to solve the problem of you're given you know thousands, millions of pages of text, go have the computer understand this.” PeopleTryingKindProblemLanguageNaturalProgressComputer Author:Stephen Wolfram
“All the time I was plowing through books on dyslexia, I found myself asking: what if, what if? What if you were a kid the 1950s with this condition, when there were no books on it, when there was no understanding of it. I remember kids in my class at school who just didn't seem to progress in their reading. There was no extra help. People just thought, "Oh, he or she isn't so bright, or they're obstinate."” PeopleBookHelpingKidsSchoolRememberReadingUnderstandingProgressExtrasWhat IfObstinateDyslexia Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“Turning 40 is often a big symbolic point in one's life. In the 20s we feel we can do anything, but as the 30s progress we become more mature emotionally, and in terms of work tend to focus. These two things combined: emotional maturity and career focus, often produced an explosion of self-purpose in our 40s.” TermFocusProgressEmotionalMaturityMature Author:Tom Butler-Bowdon
“If we are going to have any improvement in U.S.-Russia relations - which I think should be an objective of the United States - we don't want to stay where we are. We'd like for this to be more constructive. Then we're going to have to see progress on Ukraine.” ThinkingProgressRelationImprovement Author:Kurt Volker
“Most people try to escalate a relationship too quickly. Trust is built slowly, over time. Good relationships are built little by little, and there are no shortcuts, so do not try to push the relationship to progress faster than is natural. Because relationships are progressions, follow-ups are important.” PeopleTryingImportantNaturalProgressProgressionGood Relationship Author:Adam Rifkin
“Once Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos was going to be his Education Secretary - a few months before I finished the manuscript - I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen. He was going to overturn as much of what Barack Obama did, and the attendant social progress, as he could.” ProgressBarackSecretarySocial Progress Author:Vanessa Grigoriadis
“I realize that the 2020s are going to be completely different than this decade has been. There's going to be rapid progress. One of the most important aspects is going to be cheaper access to space. It changes everything. We have the ideas and the technology to do a lot of things, but we're limited financially, so, by reducing the cost of access to space, the whole problem is changed. Ultimately, the pieces that are coming together are going to allow us to send humans to Mars - and bring them back.” ImportantDifferentProblemTogetherRealizingTechnologyProgressChanged Author:Jeremy Hansen
“Inflation is certainly low and stable and, measured in unemployment and labour-market slack, the economy has made a lot of progress. The pace of growth is disappointingly slow, mostly because productivity growth has been very slow, which is not really something amenable to monetary policy. It comes from changes in technology, changes in worker skills and a variety of other things, but not monetary policy, in particular.” GrowthTechnologyEconomyProgressPolicyProductivityVarietyInflationMonetary Author:Ben Bernanke
“Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently: as essential to being human and to human progress, individual and collective.” ArtPastLiteratureIndividualSinProgressBeing HumanShortcomings Author:Brian Boyd
“The U.S. position on Jerusalem was not the reason why there hasn't been progress towards peace. The reason is that both the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership are divided. And there is an enormous gap between Israelis and Palestinians. To say that this decision is only recognizing reality, that Jerusalem is the actual capital of Israel - well, that's true. But it's a selective recognition of reality.” ReasonRealityDecisionProgressRecognitionPalestinianIsraeli Author:Richard N. Haass
“There might be greater technology but really, we as human beings, we're the same as we ever were. There's always a ruling class that shits on a working class. There's always war over money. So we as humans aren't enlightened as a whole. So I think that you as an individual can progress under certain circumstances, so if you choose to be something and to try and learn and to try and progress then eventually it will happen but that is also who you are. You can make conscious decisions to try and do something positive or constructive but you are what you are.” ThinkingTryingWarIndividualDecisionTechnologyProgressCircumstancesConsciousWho You AreEnlightenedYou ChooseWorking Class Author:David W. Marsden
“The LDS Church teaches that Christ's atoning sacrifice enables the resurrection of all human beings and provides an opportunity for individuals to progress toward exaltation, meaning a higher level of glory within the celestial kingdom. Only those individuals who make and keep covenants with God on earth - beginning with baptism but also including additional ordinances - will be exalted into the presence of God and their savior for eternity.” EarthOpportunityIndividualChurchTeachProgressSacrificeGloryEternitySaviorResurrectionCelestialBaptismPresence Of God Author:John Turner
“I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't write a memoir because I can't do it this week or next week... I try to be an inspiration to the young to respect their older people; we can't stay the same, but we do the best we can with what's left. You can't whine about stuff, you have to learn to eat humble pie along the way and keep going, because the alternative is going to happen.” PeopleWritingTryingInspirationProgressWeekHumbleMemoirKeep GoingWork In Progress Author:Carmen Dell'Orefice
“Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.” WritingTryingProgressMysteryWork In Progress Author:Lauren Groff
“The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.” ProgressTheoryWalkingEternalAncientDesertTrailsEternal LifeSkeletonsDiscarded Author:Arthur Koestler
“During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.” SchoolBlackWhiteProgressAchievementDecadesBoardsBrownGapsBlack And WhiteTerrificPublic SchoolIntegratedBoard Of Education Author:Jonathan Kozol
“There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.” PeopleHas BeensStillsSchoolProgressTeachingFieldsMaterialsAreasInnovationTextbooksCurriculumRevisionElementary School Author:Jonathan Kozol
“With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.” KindLawProgressInstitutionsStartingRule Of LawBurma Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.” ThinkingInspirationalAgeBusinessVisionKnowledgeProgressSkillsDemandDegreesIntelligentCriticalLogicalCapabilityNew AgeConstructiveCritical ThinkingDeductionsSynthesis Author:Li Ka-shing
“'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.” ThinkingKindTwoReasonGuyReadingLinesTalkingClearCuttingProgressFineDividesBad GuysGood GuyFine Lines Author:Christian Bale
“Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.” PeopleKnowsWayHumansKnow HowProgressChangedEdgesAdvertisingHuman Experience Author:Jaron Lanier