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“Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.”

Men Firsts Humans Has Beens Hands Steps Progress Heard Majority Possession Valuable Stores Destroyed Abyss Seekers Every Step Stirring Human Progress Valuable Things Truth Seekers

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.”

Done Young Next Can Do Wealth Steps Progress Discipline You Can Do It Next Steps Inherited Wealth

Book:Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

“We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.”

People Needs Should Made Reason Might Happens Law Numbers Steps Issues Progress Things Happen Passing Passings Voting

Author:Clay Aiken

“Samadhi is the journey from individual to collective consciousness. The steps of Samadhi are the steps towards reaching the collective consciousness. In meditation, the more we radiate love, compassion, peace, harmony and tranquility, the more is our contribution towards the collective consciousness. The more we positively contribute towards the collective consciousness the more is our progress in Samadhi.”

Individual Consciousness Compassion Steps Meditation Progress Journey Harmony Contribution Reaching Collectives Tranquility Positively Samadhi Collective Consciousness Peace Harmony

Author:Amit Ray

“Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.”

Ifs Long Use Steps Progress Ideals Method Strive Deeds Practicals Leap Judged Lofty Right Direction Our Words

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.”

Shows Inspiration Walks Steps Progress Industry Genius Machines Trade Workers Electricity Idealist Aircraft

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!”

Firsts Christian Lasts Sin Steps Progress Refuse Deny Guilty Repent

Author:John R. Rice

“A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.”

Order Steps Progress Expression Theory Simplicity Hypothetical Framing

Book:Miscellaneous Scientific Papers

Source: Miscellaneous Scientific Papers

“Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.”

Running Steps Progress Patience Wings Legs

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps.”

Men Humans Seems Passion Loses Steps Progress Movement Wander Folly Wilderness March Inches Trails Pathways Mazes Human Progress Devious

Author:Joseph Alexander Leighton

“In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.”

Should Steps Creative Progress Baby Perfection Asking Block Not Perfect Recovering Baby Steps Creative Block Progress Not Perfection

Book:Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way

Source: Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way

“If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.”

Ifs Steps Progress Hungry Steps Forward Push Yourself Always Working

Author:G-Eazy

“Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.”

Reason Steps Progress Majority Accomplished Minorities Steps Forward Persuading

Author:George William Curtis

“Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.”

Ifs Way Firsts Mean Ideas Courses Steps Path Progress Method Progressive Transition

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.”

Has Beens Made I Can Religion Steps Progress Opponents Contradiction Every Step Clergy Vigilant

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.”

Men Humans Loses Loss Moral Steps Progress Mankind Intellectual Gains Good Things Investment All Time Permanent One Man Human History

Book:The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

“What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?”

Made Social Understanding Steps Progress Appeals Lasting Reformation Every Step

Author:William Matthews

“Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.”

Self Whole Remember Effort Steps Progress Sacrifice Higher Ambition Standards Mark Painful Denial Length Ladders Self-denial Higher Standards

Book:Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated

Source: Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated

“In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.”

Doe Steps Progress Plans Evolution One Day Program Perfection Strive Scales Superiors Classic Twelve Primitive Organisms One Day At A Time

Author:Natalie

“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”

Has Beens Courses Education Steps Cases Progress Example Organization Universal Paid Credit Technique Backwards Notable Aeroplanes Wireless Universal Education Debit

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“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

“Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.”

Animal Brain Steps Worry Forever Progress Weapons Gains Atmosphere Rebellion Every Step Agitation

Book:Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Patriot

Source: Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Patriot

“Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.”

May Mean Ends Whole Happens Social Process Steps Progress Conditions Survival Ethical Cosmic Every Step Social Progress Substitution

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.”

Persons Made Steps Principles Progress Achieve Determined Maximum One Step At A Time Small Stuff

Book:The Magic Of Thinking Big

Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big

“What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?”

Firsts Goal Steps Gone Progress First Steps

Author:Michael Gerber

“If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.”

People Ifs Want Shows Spiritual Steps Progress Example Inspire Raises Preaching Threatening Ladders Indication Deductions Conspiring Spiritual Progress

Author:Ameen Rihani

“The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.”

Giving Order Steps Progress Discovery Unity

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.”

Source: The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan

“Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.”

Steps Progress Plans Accidents Temptation

Book:The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes

Source: The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes

“The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.”

“To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.”

Firsts Believe Self Steps Progress First Steps

Book:Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them

Source: Studies on Fermentation: The Diseases of Beer, Their Causes, and the Means of Preventing Them

“The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.”

“Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.”

Way Social Steps Progress Profit Every Step Elimination Disintegration

Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.”

Social Steps Progress Effects Duty Institutions Recognition Conform Every Step Replacements Social Progress

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.”

Men Mind Heart Doe Hands Imagination Wonder Moral Steps Progress Farce

Author:Vance Havner

“Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.”

Way Humans Matter Next Realizing Justice Steps Progress Ballots Next Steps Suffrage Betterment Human Progress Woman Suffrage

Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.”

Has Beens Problem Difficult Steps Progress Legs Decades Seconds Robots Difficult Problems Slow Progress

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“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.”

World Needs Giving Country Play Earth Strong Goal Company Steps Clear Progress Plans Connected Setting Settings Step Up Demonstrating

Author:Richard Branson

“When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.”

Thinking Men Firsts Steps Taken Progress Men And Women First Steps

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.”

Kind Ideas Steps Progress Risk Inspired Heavy Code Involving Every Step Variance

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.”

“Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it.”

People Years Young Views Steps Five Progress Development Ten Photography Photographer Point Of View Inevitable

Author:Ansel Adams

“The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through one World War, I have lived through the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. I have experienced what I never thought I would have experienced, which is a pretty workable peace in Northern Ireland, and I experienced a unified Europe - until the Conservative government got its hands on the idea that in order to appease a few back-benchers they would hold a referendum, what a disastrous idea.”

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.”

Needs May Happiness Fear Steps Doubt Progress Plans Journey Burden Obstacles Bars Road To Success One Step At A Time Doubt And Fear Right Road

Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life