“The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.” ThinkingMenShouldIdeasCharacterPoliticalStrongSocialChanceCreativePathGreaterProgressHe ManCitizensEqualPrejudiceObstaclesConclusionHelpfulFlatsBroadsFrankHospitalityChances AreMenaceBenign Author:Richard M. Weaver
“The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.” ThinkingMenFirstsBelieveSaidDoubtProgressHe ManWombCradle Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.” ThinkingWorldNeedsShouldPersonsDoeMatterHappensPassionNextEnergyForgetProgressRiskNo Matter WhatCriticsTunesYieldNever ForgetBe YouShrinksImpatience Author:Tim Cook
“We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.” ThinkingKnowsBodySufferingResultsPracticeTechnologyEnvironmentProgressSeeingDesignCreationIndustryDemandGreenEnvironmentalCancerInevitableFlawsChemistryChemicalsToxicEngineeringPollutionPrimitiveAgricultureConvenienceOur EnvironmentInconvenient Author:Sandra Steingraber
“I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.” ThinkingNeedsGrowthProgressReadyHealthyModelsArtisticMasterpiecePerfectionistNot Ready Author:Michael Angelakos
“I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsMovingAliveProgressPicksRight ThingMy TimeGood Way Author:Demetri Martin
“As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.” ThinkingArtistProgressWho I AmGet BetterExpandingDefiningLyrical Author:Mike Stud
“The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive.” PeopleThinkingProgressReaderDecided Author:Jeanette Winterson
“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.” ThinkingNeedsKindDifferentCausesPowerfulProgressHungryDifferent Kinds Author:Barack Obama
“I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.” ThinkingWantTryingDoeFilmGrowsBitsProgressFilmmakerKeep TryingLove Making Author:Dexter Fletcher
“Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.” ThinkingMayDifferentPoliticsProgressIndiaCommittedColourPassportsBharatBhutan Author:Narendra Modi
“I'm a Spinozist. I believe in reason. I think all the progress that we've made making this a better world have been because of reason and not religion. I think religion has been pulled along by reason and that's why we read The Bible now so differently, even believers.” ThinkingWorldBelieveHas BeensMadeReasonI BelieveProgressI Believe InBeliever Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and whatever moral progress we make in our knowledge or whatever progress we make in our moral knowledge is not coming really from religion. It's coming from the very hard work really of moral philosophy, of trying to ground our moral reasonings.” ThinkingTryingHardPhilosophyHelpingShowsMoralProgressHard WorkArgumentReasoningMoral PhilosophyMoral Reasoning Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.” ThinkingMenScienceFoundProgressImpossibleDespairTasksObstaclesUndertakingsProvincesGreatest Obstacles Book:The Great Instauration Source: The Great Instauration
“I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.” ThinkingRealIssuesProgressMediaDiseaseComfortableEntertainment Author:Anita Roddick
“Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a cure. This does not reflect today's reality of more women dying around the world from this disease and the lack of real progress.” ThinkingWorldWayDoeRealRealityTodayCultureProgressDyingDiseaseFindingsCuresAround The WorldGentle Author:Leanne Pooley
“I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.” ThinkingWorldCountryUnderstandingDecisionLevelsClearProgressHighestAround The WorldRecognitionDiscussionDecision MakingBusiness Woman Author:Quentin Bryce
“In a recent interview, Jeb Bush revealed that his brother George gave him the nickname 'tortoise' because he's making slow, steady progress. Though I think the bigger story here is that compared to George, Jeb is the slow one.” ThinkingStoriesProgressBrotherBiggerInterviewsSteadyNicknamesTortoisesSteady Progress Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.” ThinkingLittlesMadeWarTalkingPovertyEconomyProgressKingsRacismComplexesEnormousLuther Author:Andrew Young
“Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.” ThinkingWorldAbleQualityProgressThis WorldPositive Thinking Author:Sri Chinmoy
“Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.” IfsThinkingWellsStillsBigsMotivationBehindsCompanyEnvironmentProgressRevolutionSellsNot SurePaceVehicleElectricBig CompaniesTeslaElectric Vehicles Author:Elon Musk
“You have to think of each stage of the movie and how it progresses, get into the state of mind of the character, and then match the camera to that, and keep making it tighter and tighter and crazier and crazier so people don't get bored. You know you cannot do a similar shot that you did at the beginning of the movie at the end.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindEndsStatesCharacterProgressStageShotsCamerasBoredState Of Mind Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“I think all women want to get out of our own little bubble and challenge a man's world. And I love challenges. I love that this isn't going to be easy. Being the first is going to be hard. I just want to keep pushing and progressing.” ThinkingWorldEasyChallengesProgressBubblesWomen Want Author:Jessica Mendoza
“Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.” ThinkingSpiritualSufferingProgressFoolCherishAccelerateSpiritual Progress Author:Sri Chinmoy
“A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.” ThinkingMenProgressOughtConservative Author:James Fitzjames Stephen
“The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.” ThinkingMenProgressEnlightenmentObjectivesTendenciesEnlightenedSubjectiveWipeMatched Author:Theodor Adorno
“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
“It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.” PeopleThinkingPhilosophyProgressSubjectsArguingBarsDrunkMetaphysicsDrunk People Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress unless there's a strong solidarity movement within the superpower that will restrain its actions. With more support within the United States, I think the Haitian efforts could have succeeded.” ThinkingCountryStatesActionStrongUnitedEffortUnited StatesSupportProgressMovementLessonsWeakViolentSolidarityHostileSuperpowerHaitian Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.” IfsThinkingWayHumansHelpingUseCareUniverseCoursesMistakeProgressFailingFindingsApproachCreatingToolsTestsStructureTake CareRingsEndeavorOur RelationshipMarvelousImprovingHypothesisTestingTheoreticalMethodologyAnomalies Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy is out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a 'socialist' taking over the country. Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man can be can suddenly change our entire system? That's kind of absurd.” PeopleThinkingMenWantYearsKindPersonsCountryGuyThreeLostProgressRepublicanOfficeClaimsAbsurdOne ManThree YearsSocialistThis GuyCaution Author:Colin Powell
“Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up a couple of inches, you are compelled to move up too? Do we really think we are making progress toward our destination? "Whew, I thought we would be late, but now that I am nine inches closer, I can stop for coffee and a danish!"” ThinkingPersonsI CanLightWould BeMovingProgressFrontsCoupleLateSittingRedCoffeeNineDestinationInchesCompelledDanishPull UpsRed Lights Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the late Conservative years - the end of Thatcher/start of Major and certainly continued throughout New Labour and continuing now - that new is necessarily better, so there is this neophilia which isn't the vanguard of progress, it's just the vanguard of the construction industry enjoying itself.” ThinkingWorldYearsEndsEnjoyProgressIndustryLateMajorsConservativeArchitectureLabourCollectivesConstructionMentalityContinuingVanguardConstruction Industry Author:Jonathan Meades
“To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.” ThinkingTryingMadeConsciousnessProgressFieldsPaperPublishingPapers Author:Stuart J. Russell
“I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.” ThinkingKnowsMadeBodyDoubtProgressEssentialsMovedConnectedCoreNo Doubt Author:Eve Ensler
“As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.” ThinkingMadeImportantRealityArtistProgressMarkCelebrate Author:Michael Adam Hamilton
“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.” ThinkingWorldWellsMayArtStillsSeemsEyeMoralProgressPoetConversationIntellectualFunctionEngagedLackingAvoidedLingeringRegressionHere We Go Again Author:Fady Joudah
“I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldHas BeensTwoIdeasWholeSeemsLastsMovingThreeDifficultViewsProgressTechniqueDependentCommodityGlobalization Author:Amartya Sen
“Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I dont think Japans wealth was based on exploiting China. Japans wealth was based on its expansion in international trade.” ThinkingWayMadeCountryBigsWealthProgressTradeInternationalChinaJapanExpansionInternational Trade Author:Amartya Sen
“I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn't make a definitive statement about this, but my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.” PeopleThinkingArtistTermNumbersBoysProgressRegardImpressionStatementsTeenageDemographicsImpedimentsNew Artists Author:Adrian Tomine
“Think about how long it took for the mountains to get there and look so beautiful. Think about how long it takes for this tree over us to grow. We're so impatient. Think about it. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.” ThinkingLooksLongBeautifulGrowsPerfectForeverAliveProgressTreeMountainLeafsImpatientWork In Progress Author:Daphne Zuniga
“Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to social progress. Progress is work. People need to build things and sacrifice and have a harder life for things to get better. On its own, I don't think even the most brilliant critique stimulates that kind of effort as well as an appealing vision of the future.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsKindMovingSocialEffortVisionProgressSacrificeHarderAddBrilliantGet BetterWorldviewCritiqueUtopianExertionFramedSocial ProgressVisions Of The Future Author:Christine Jennings
“I am laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements of what I think will build a strong economy, that will ensure Americans keep making progress. That's what I'm offering and that's what I will do as president.” ThinkingCareJobsStrongPresidentEconomyProgressElementsUniversalPaidIncomeHealth CareRisingAgendasOfferingCoverageStrong EconomyUniversal Health Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansReasonLastsYoungSocialJusticeRightsProgressHonestConversationSocial JusticeHuman RightsEightDialogueYoutube Author:Tyler Oakley
“I support special forces. I support trainers. I support the air campaign. And I think we're making some progress. I want to continue to intensify that, and that's exactly what the president is doing.” ThinkingWantForcePresidentSupportProgressAirSpecialCampaignsTrainersSpecial Forces Author:Hillary Clinton
“Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYearsHumansFactsLastsTurnsCoursesDifficultFictionProgressTaughtProjectsScientistClaimsRelationScience FictionHuman LifePaceUnderestimateScopeWay Of ThinkingTaught UsSingularityScientific Progress Author:George Pattison
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayLongFightingInterestPowerfulCompanyTakenProgressStreetsSpecialMilitaryWallDrugComplexesAgendasSenatorsLong WayVery PowerfulSpecial InterestsMilitary Industrial ComplexLong Way To GoDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history tells us that whenever things start to move too fast, whenever progress makes people feel a little breathless, one of the go-to spots that government, that the ruling powers that society goes to is to try to repress women.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingLittlesSometimesGovernmentMovingPoliticalProgressSpotsMechanismRulingDisconnectedBreathless Author:Anna Quindlen
“People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.” PeopleThinkingOrderRecordsProgressThink Of You Author:King Khan
“I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.” IfsThinkingWantTryingImagineProgressCriticismKneesBeesInvincibleWork In ProgressTrying Our Best Author:Stephen Malkmus