“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.” IfsLooksWould BeActionMovingOur LivesGrowingProgressMovementKeysEvolutionOppositesStuckDevelopingAccomplishmentStayingMatureExpandingClarifying Book:Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way Source: Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way
“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.” ChristianNamesChurchCommonChristianityProgressViolenceHumilityOppositesChristian LifeArroganceHostileRigidityChristian ChurchUsurpationPenitence Author:Leo Tolstoy
“How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?” ArtAgeUnderstandingProgressUnderstoodOppositesBarbarians Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.” ShouldHas BeensWaterRaceProgressRevolutionShould HaveOppositesInstinctRageImprovementResistanceReformStreamsThrownOverwhelmingConservatismFanaticismShould Have BeenBegetsSweepingImpedimentsObstructionUltras Author:Horace Mann
“If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?” IfsHumorGovernmentFunnyProgressOppositesWitty Author:Paul Harvey
“Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.” ThinkingIdeasCareProgressAreasOppositesYeahHealth CareNew Ideas Author:Barack Obama