“Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors” ProgressBackgroundsFactorsColourEndowment Author:Michael Bassey
“Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.” ImportantProgressSocietyFactorsDisapproval Book:The Conquest of Civilization Source: The Conquest of Civilization
“To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.” MayMeanArtBookEndsReasonBodyLife IsStrongTalkingOur LivesProgressMovementFactorsWorks Of Art Book:Wyndham Lewis the Artist Source: Wyndham Lewis the Artist
“Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.” ThreeNaturalPrinciplesEnvironmentProgressProduceCreaturesClimateProductionsLocalsFactorsCosmicSelectionAdaptationInheritanceVariationNatural SelectionHabitat Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.” Would BeAbleSufferingDifficultPresidentPoorEconomyProgressPromiseFactorsBarackDeliveringPresident Barack Obama Author:Russell Simmons