“When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.” WellsMadeHousePresidentWhiteProgressTaxesReformWhite HouseComprehensiveCarterTax ReformPresident Carter Author:David Rubenstein
“In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.” PeopleHeartEvilHouseDifferencesPrayerGraceProgressPrayingMy HeartHolyBlessingProtectPrejudiceUnityDeedsTonguePassingPassingsDestroyedTornDisputesCrossingsLanesKuwaitProstration Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
“Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.” RealSchoolHouseViewsEducationProgressPercentIndiaSymbolsHospitalsVillageElectricityAdequateParametersGood School Author:Narendra Modi
“It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so!” PastHouseEasyGrowthKindnessProgressEmotionalCostRewardsCommitUrgesFlawsComfortingFamiliarityDwellingHamperDwelling On The PastHouse Arrest Book:The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life) Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)
“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
“Between [Speaker of the House] Paul Ryan, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump's team, I don't see a lot of openings for making real progress.” RealHouseLeaderProgressTeamTrumpMajorityOpeningSenateSpeakersMajority Leader Author:Bill McKibben
“I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.” PeopleThinkingMadeSaidCareLastsHousePresidentTalkingLeaderMillionsProgressRiskMembersGainsTwentiesElectionMajorityRateIncludingCongressHealth CareAgendasStakesSenateSpeakersPrincipalLowestMajority Leader Author:Barack Obama
“The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality.” MotherHumanityHouseUnderstandingCommonBoysProgressVictoryMoralityGayTraditionCivil RightsYoung WomenCivil Rights MovementGay RightsAbolitionSuffrage Author:Al Gore