“Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.” IdeasIndividualProgressDependsJudgmentDespiteCollectivesIndividualismNew IdeasBeing FreeDisapproval Book:Theory of Economic Growth Source: Theory of Economic Growth
“I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.” TryingStatesProgressEnormousDespiteBudgetsDeficitBudget Deficit Author:Jennifer Granholm
“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.” WayYearsStillsRealEndsStatesFactsThreeBlackWhiteFiveFourProgressCenturyFiguresSixPercentAdultsYears AgoEducationalDecadesDespite20th CenturyLiteracyAnother WayEightyDisadvantagesSchoolingSurveysAssessmentIlliteracyAll State Author:Vin Suprynowicz
“But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.” SeemsDifficultGreaterProgressEssentialsMeaningfulDespiteIngredientsLackingMeaningful LifeAffluenceAffluent Author:Alex Campbell
“Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.” SeemsTermAnswersClearProgressMaterialsMiracleDespiteAncestorHumankindHelplessPrivilegedImprovingFacing Life Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable.” I CanLightDiesFunSleepProgressMiddleWasteWork OutDespiteWanderComplaintsComes And GoesServerOperating SystemsTravel Light Author:Paul Ford
“I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.” WayTurnsStruggleProgressStandingOkayOvercomingObstaclesDespiteMy WayAllowing Author:Josh McDermitt
“At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.” IfsShouldHas BeensAbleIndividualLevelsEnvironmentProgressIllPsychologicalDespiteMechanismInterventionFundingAdversePsychosis Author:Richard Bentall
“I think the name came [of the show 'Gaycation'] out of the fact that a lot of people just don't know - they don't know what so many people face around the world or even in their own country, where there's a variety of experience, and despite the incredible progress we've seen, that progress hasn't necessarily reached everyone. I wanted to kind of have this title to have you be open to the experience, and then you enter it and you do see the realities.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldKindCountryFactsShowsRealityWantedFacesNamesProgressIncrediblesDespiteAround The WorldVarietyTitles Author:Ellen Page