Best progress & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”

May Self Matter Facts Helping Past Progress Materials Scientist Significant Devoted Evident Odds And Ends

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.”

Made Today Past Opportunity Perfect Practice Progress Profit Corporations Immense Translate

Author:Maurice Strong

“I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.”

Thinking Believe Long Past Cases Progress Periods Painter Absurdity

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.”

World Humans Has Beens Ideas Past Order Culture Community Quality Progress This World Changed Return Notion New World Units Society And Culture

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“You have to grow. If not you're then living in regret and you're living in the past and you're not progressing forward. And I learned the mistakes that I made and they made me stronger.”

Ifs Made Past Grows Mistake Progress Regret Stronger Mma Living In The Past

Author:Liz Carmouche

“We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.”

Firsts May Past Progress Orderly Ruts

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.”

Past Difficult Issues Progress Importance Korea North Korea Abduction

Author:Koichi Haraguchi

“Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at the designs of God and realize how very little we are in control of the events that shaped the past year. Then, with hearts full, look to the celebration of that silent, holy night, and all its certainty. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass those of our own.”

Knows Years Looks Heart Littles Past Night Christ Realizing Born Progress Plans Journey Events Design Holy Mark Silent Christmas Certainty Celebration December Holy Night

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.”

Mean Littles Past Opportunity Race Greater Progress Sacrifice Duty Performances Deeds Noble Foolish Glorious Wiser Sublime Discharge

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.”

Men Art Past Nations Progress Building

Book:The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857

Source: The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857

“We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.”

Looks May Made Whole Age Past Form Vision Doubt Progress Fields Limits Training Contact Range No Doubt Horizon Transition Peculiar Tubes

Author:Cargill Gilston Knott

“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”

“The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and all hope for the future. Since when has any one made it appear that shackled thought could get on better than that which is free? Brains are a great misfortune if one is never to use them.”

Ifs World Made Use Past Brain Progress Made It Misfortunes Hope For The Future Free Thought

Author:Richard Savage

“Does anyone believe for one moment that the progress we have made would have been possible under bureaucratic control of any government. This country was founded upon the principle of the regulation of private effort, of making rules for the game, and under that system alone can we look for the same success in the future which has been ours in the past. Our position today is the direct result of the free play among our people of private competitive effort.”

People Believe Looks Doe Has Beens Made Country Play Moments Government Today Past Games Results Effort Principles Progress Position Direct Competition Regulation Free Play

Author:Roger Babson

“A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.”

Men Long Past Steps Progress Authority Depth Realms Assumption Superiority Aggravated

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.”

“For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.”

Believe Ideas Past Justice Progress Injustice Tolerance Reactions Intolerance Our Past Justice Will Prevail

Author:Hillary Clinton

“More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.”

World Years Has Beens Made America Past Challenges Records Progress Century Materials Achievement Hundred Fifty Enterprise World History

Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.”

Knows Way Past Hurt Sleep Rooms Progress Happened Dare Finding Yourself Can Not Progression

Author:Thierry Henry

“Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in that same process which in an earlier period produced our national forms of life. The sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present: they cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way of the organized world of tomorrow.”

World Way Said Ends Enough Problem Past Form Nations Process Community Progress Stage Tomorrow Periods Solve Organized Continuing Sovereign Process Of Change

Author:Jean Monnet

“Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.”

Humans Persons Past Faces Individual Human Beings Situation Novel Progress Danger Duty Ordinary Rate Fixed Length Parallels Length Of Life

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World

“The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.”

Way Past Winning Progress Adventure Offers Democrat Opponents Heritage Right Way Voyages Great Adventure

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.”

Feels May Long Has Beens Past Purpose Path Progress Air Dangerous Office Europe Obstacles Sanity Suspicion Removal Animosity Appeasement Czechoslovakia

Author:Neville Chamberlain

“Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.”

“The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.”

Life Book Past Dies Fate Progress Youth Despair Crosses Down And Peril

Author:William Shakespeare

“The invention progress is tough sometimes. When I first choreographed the Drunken Master in the past with Jackie Chan, I spent months to create the whole sequence. There were no fight sequences before; it's just a name. I have to choreograph it all by myself.”

Firsts Sometimes Whole Past Fighting Names Progress Masters Months Tough Invention Sequence Jackie

Author:Yuen Woo-ping

“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!”

Past House Easy Growth Kindness Progress Emotional Cost Rewards Commit Urges Flaws Comforting Familiarity Dwelling Hamper Dwelling On The Past House 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)

“Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood. Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.”

“One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.”

Past Lost Progress One Thing Get Better Volatility Things Are Getting Better

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).”

“In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we're not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.”

Humans Enough Jobs Past Progress Creating Come Up Technological New Job Technological Progress

Author:Gemma Chan

“There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.”

Years Past Progress Violence Percent Iraq Civilians Over The Past Civilian Deaths

Author:David Petraeus

“Afghanistan has other enormous challenges as well, including a political system that is still very much developing, although there has been some progress in the past several years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Stills Past Political Challenges Progress Including Enormous Developing Afghanistan Political Systems

Author:David Petraeus

“There's something human that has to do with time and space and being who I am that is in progress and always will be in progress. And who I am, on different days, different moments, depends on different aspects of my past.”

Different Moments Past Progress Time And Space My Past

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“You go back and look at the situations from both angles, and that's where the progress and the growth came, by being able to look at it from the other side. Moving forward, knowing to do the right thing was learning from my mistakes of the past. Sometimes it's just, don't do that.”

Sometimes Past Moving Growth Mistake Situation Progress Moving Forward Right Thing My Mistakes

Author:Richie Incognito

“Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently: as essential to being human and to human progress, individual and collective.”

Art Past Literature Individual Sin Progress Being Human Shortcomings

Author:Brian Boyd

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”

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