“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.” MayHas BeensHardPlayValuesForceChallengesProgressHonestyHard WorkDependsReturnQuietFairsInstrumentsCuriosityLoyaltyToleranceInaugurationInauguralFair Play Author:Barack Obama
“There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.” WayMeanIdeasWarPlayProgressRevolutionHealthyPolicePeacefulRecognitionReformInvitesStableSubversiveSubversionFree PlayThought Police Book:The Best of I.F. Stone Source: The Best of I.F. Stone
“In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?” ArtPlayHandsActorsProgressConditionsDramaRelationFundamentalsTheatreAestheticExploringSpectatorsHand In HandExperimentationAvant Garde Book:Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992 Source: Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992
“But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.” FirstsWellsStillsDonePlayMovingScienceValuesForcePleasureProgressConditionsPerformancesScientistCuriositySakeMotiveContentmentWell DoneInsatiableWork Well Done Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson
“Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.” MayPlayShowsRolesProgressHabitObstaclesTendenciesUnfortunateImitation Author:African Spir
“Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.” FeelsPlayInterestJusticeProgressSolutionsFairsCongressCorporateFrustratedFair Play Author:E. L. Doctorow
“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.” PeopleBelieveLooksDoeHas BeensMadeCountryPlayMomentsGovernmentTodayPastGamesResultsEffortPrinciplesProgressPositionDirectCompetitionRegulationFree Play Author:Roger Babson
“Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.” HumansMeanPlayProgressBirthFinishedAccomplishment Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski
“Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue to play the guitar or your instrument and always continue to progress or otherwise you will fail.” MatterPlayProgressFailingActivityTheaterNo Matter WhatInstrumentsGuitarClubsCoffeeLocalsShopsCoffee Shop Author:Tony Vincent
“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.” YearsWellsDoeTwoPlayHelpingBigsQualityRolesFiveProgressAchieveFootballSixConstantSevenTwo YearsSeven YearsLife Time Author:Berti Vogts
“I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.” PeopleWellsPlayUsedWaitingProgressExcuseFinishedOrchestraWork In Progress Author:Chris Lowe
“The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.” MenTryingDoeSaidPlayFactsSpiritFightingMistakeProgressHe ManAdventureBallsCriticsWheelsMaking MistakesCriticizeArenaBoldnessGalleryDoersBrakeBiggest MistakeSpirit Of Adventure Author:David M. Shoup
“Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.” YearsPlayMusicProgressLessonsPianoPsychoanalysisMusic Lessons Author:Woody Allen
“Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.” PeopleThinkingBelievePlayRolesProgressPossibilityBigger Book:Six Thinking Hats Source: Six Thinking Hats
“We all are now very aware of what a connected world we live in - connected to each other and to the earth that gives us everything we have. We need all countries and companies to step up and play their part - setting strong goals, having clear plans, and openly demonstrating progress.” WorldNeedsGivingCountryPlayEarthStrongGoalCompanyStepsClearProgressPlansConnectedSettingSettingsStep UpDemonstrating Author:Richard Branson
“On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.” PlayFoundSocialSidesRolesProgressCreatingWindowEntrepreneurCriticalGiantsExtensionsSocial Change Author:Lewis Schiff
“Literate households in the 17th century would have had the Bible, John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," and a couple of other books. Shakespeare plays were cheap, so you could buy those, but a folio cost a pound, which was an incredible amount of money then.” BookPlayProgressCenturyAmountCoupleCostIncrediblesPoundsHouseholdPilgrim17th CenturyShakespeare Play Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.” TryingPlayMightProgressMadnessConcentrationWork In ProgressRehearsing Author:Mercedes McCambridge