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“There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.”

Ifs Mind Happens Young Spirit Powerful Creative Progress Intellectual Contact Worldly Endeavour

Author:Will Self

“The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.”

People Force Powerful Progress Underestimate Never Underestimate Undermining

Book:Changes: A Love Story

Source: Changes: A Love Story

“The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.”

Ifs Men Feelings Hands Joy Powerful Progress Dog Changed Dear Oneself Satisfaction Deprived Doing Good Respectability Levers

Author:Albert Camus

“Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.”

Long Doe Government Powerful Roles Progress Century Debate All Time Settling Our Time Role Of Government

Author:Barack Obama

“While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.”

Humans Powerful Progress Wind Blow Human Progress

Author:Barack Obama

“I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.”

Thinking Needs Kind Different Causes Powerful Progress Hungry Different Kinds

Author:Barack Obama

“There is no reason to be disappointed. India will progress very fast and the skills of our youth will take India ahead.”

Reason Powerful Progress Youth Skills India No Reason Disappointed

Author:Narendra Modi

“We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.”

Should Together Moving Walks Powerful Progress Working Together Mantras Moving Ahead

Author:Narendra Modi

“Can someone tell me, whatever we are doing, have we asked ourselves if our work has helped the poor or come to benefit the nation in any way? We should come out of the 'Why should I care' attitude and dedicate ourselves to the nation's progress.”

Ifs Way Should Care Nations Poor Powerful Attitude Progress Benefits Should I I Care

Author:Narendra Modi

“We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.”

People Government Running Individual Powerful Progress Policy Driven Reform Whim

Author:Narendra Modi

“The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.”

Men Enough Government Natural Powerful Effort Progress Conditions Constant Errors Investing Improvement Every Man Administration Spite Uniforms Extravagance

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?”

Source: It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership

“God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.”

Want Wanted Christian Spiritual Powerful Enemy Progress Threat Israel Believer Internals Detest Spiritual Health

Author:Max Anders

“I think we are making progress, but we have long way to go. People also have got to understand the agenda that we are fighting for. This is a senator who has taken on every powerful special interest, whether it's Wall Street, whether it's drug companies who are ripping off the American people, the military industrial complex.”

“The expression I use: Pain + Reality = Progress. Whenever I would have a painful mistake, I started to view that as puzzles that would give me gems if I could solve the puzzle. So, it made me thoughtful - what should I do differently next time? That was the puzzle. And the gem was some principle for handling the same thing when it came along again, and then I would write it down. And by writing it down and referring to it, and also being able to show it to other people so that we could agree that that was a good way of handling that thing - that was very, very powerful.”

People Giving Writing Reality Pain Powerful Mistake Progress Agree Painful Thoughtful Next Time Puzzles Very Powerful Gems

Author:Ray Dalio

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