“Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.” HumansMeanEndsAgeTodayNationsFireProgressRiskMiddleCenturyDemandTestsAbsolutesSafetyEnvironmentalDevelopingWheelsActivistPerpetualFarmingMiddle AgesDeprivationHuman ProgressZealotOrganic Farming Author:Paul Driessen
“Walking your path doesn't mean you don't hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else's. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I've ever been.” MeanMadeEndsSometimesMomentsPainOrderHurtBreakPathProgressMinesWalkingEasierShapesTradeWho I AmProductiveRemakes Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the late Conservative years - the end of Thatcher/start of Major and certainly continued throughout New Labour and continuing now - that new is necessarily better, so there is this neophilia which isn't the vanguard of progress, it's just the vanguard of the construction industry enjoying itself.” ThinkingWorldYearsEndsEnjoyProgressIndustryLateMajorsConservativeArchitectureLabourCollectivesConstructionMentalityContinuingVanguardConstruction Industry Author:Jonathan Meades
“A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end.” FirstsPersonsEndsCharacterHelpingStoriesVoiceProgressNarrativeIncidentsFirst PersonUniformityUnstoppableCohesiveness Author:Norman Lock
“I've found that when you can quickly knock out debt you get motivated because you see progress. Then you attack the other debt so fast that even if it's at a higher interest rate, you don't end up paying much more because you've gotten rid of it.” IfsEndsFoundInterestProgressHigherRateDebtMotivatedInterest Rate Author:Michelle Singletary
“What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.” BelieveLittlesEndsLawSpiritCoursesHouseI BelieveFeltBitsRealizingWhiteStruggleRightsProgressJourneyPeriodsLittle BitSlaveryCivil RightsBarackRelaxWhite HouseNovemberJim CrowColonial Times Author:Questlove
“When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate. We needed, I think, 13 Republican votes to get to 67. I started working in the summer making just endless phone calls, meetings, bringing experts to talk to Republicans, and then we finally got it done at the end of the year 2010. So I'm excited to roll up my sleeves and get into the business of solving problems and making progress together.” ThinkingYearsEndsStatesDoneProblemTogetherProgressArmsNeededRepublicanSummerVoteResponsibleMeetingsPhonesExcitedNuclearRussiaEndlessExpertsCall MeSenateProblem SolvingSecretarySleevesReductionTreatiesBeing ResponsiblePhone CallsNuclear Arms Author:Hillary Clinton
“The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.” IfsKnowsWayEndsFormPurposeCommunityResultsViewsCommonProgressCommunicationActivityMachinesMaximumCognizant Book:The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education Source: The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education
“Lack of consistency is the subtle but great stealer of dreams & desires. The stop & start process is what kills progress & is probably one of the greatest reasons why many don’t achieve their goals & end up living in continuous discontent, frustration & disappointment. Many buy a new book, sign up for a new program, go like crazy for a few weeks, stop & end up right back where they started. Don't let this be you!” BookEndsReasonDreamDesireProcessGoalProgressWeekCrazyAchieveProgramDisappointmentReason WhyFrustrationSubtleBe YouConsistencyDiscontentNew BooksStealers Author:Darren Hardy
“[Buckminster] Fuller's idea of progress is a very 1950s organization man out of the military sort of idea of progress. So as a result, you have something like: we've got bad weather in New York City; let's put a dome over it. And so I don't want to put a dome over Manhattan and I hope that nobody who ends up reading the book wants to do so as a result.” MenWantBookIdeasEndsReadingResultsCitiesProgressMilitaryNew YorkOrganizationWeatherOver ItNew York CityManhattanDomesBad WeatherBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.” MenWantIdeasWarEndsProgressHe ManHairDrugSessionRipCurlsWar On Drugs Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Rwanda is rebuilding itself once again as one nation and that is the reason why we are making progress. Now many Rwandans are making their ends meet and others are able to do better than they have before.” EndsReasonAbleNationsProgressReason WhyRebuildingRwanda Author:Paul Kagame
“What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.” PeopleEndsFeelingsAgeRaceProgressMediaParticularBattleHappeningsInstitutionsCurrentsGenderSexualityDiscriminationDisabilityCollapseFrighteningUrgencyGender EqualitySense Of UrgencyStalling Author:Catherine Mayer
“I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through one World War, I have lived through the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. I have experienced what I never thought I would have experienced, which is a pretty workable peace in Northern Ireland, and I experienced a unified Europe - until the Conservative government got its hands on the idea that in order to appease a few back-benchers they would hold a referendum, what a disastrous idea.” KnowsWorldFeelsTwoIdeasWarEndsHandsGovernmentOrderStepsProgressWallEuropeLifetimeSouthConservativeWar Of The WorldsIrelandWorld War ISouth AfricaPullingBerlinApartheidSteps ForwardUnifiedAppeaseNorthern IrelandReferendumsBerlin Wall Author:Patrick Stewart
“I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior year, made some progress as a 16 year-old classical saxophone player. But not really... not like how the legit cats do. But I love the [Jacques] Ibert, love [Alexander] Glazunov, love the [Paul] Creston.” YearsArtMadeEndsSchoolPlayerProgressHigh SchoolCatPerformingSeniorJuniorsFinishingSaxophonePerforming ArtsSenior YearJunior YearLegitFinishing Up Author:Jon Gordon
“One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.” ThinkingLooksMadeEndsIndividualSupportIssuesProgressMajorityRanDecentPresidencySuccessors Author:Barack Obama
“It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then.” NeedsLooksEndsTodaySocialSituationProgressMirrors1960sSocial ProgressRearview Mirror Author:Marine Le Pen