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“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”

“Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.”

“I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating in a way that's consistent with them. These laws and the principles of how to operate in harmony with them have always existed. We were given these laws by nature. Man didn't and can't make them up. He can only hope to understand them and use them to get what he wants.”

Men Way Want Life Believe Use Dream Law Universe Given I Believe Growth Numbers Principles Progress Harmony Infinite Personal Growth Investing Consistent

Author:Ray Dalio

“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”

Way Mind Heart Self Culture Realizing Differences Common Creative Taken Our Lives Progress Journey Habit Strategy Deeper Common Sense Daily Life Heart And Mind Ambiguity Intercultural

Author:H. Ned Seelye

“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.”

Way Stills Desire Progress Objects Former Latter Felicity

Book:The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750

“As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.”

Way Courses Progress Couple Kissing Mere Diminish Enjoyable Appetizers Entrees Main Course

Author:Jenna McCarthy

“People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.”

People Ifs Way Years Firsts Running Next Waiting Progress Shapes Resolution New Year Documents Next Year Parameters New Year's Resolutions Getting In Shape

Author:Jack LaLanne

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Moving Alive Progress Picks Right Thing My Time Good Way

Author:Demetri Martin

“Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.”

Way Philosophy Progress Concern Addresses Systematic

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you played one year ago, you have to always make progress. So that's a challenge.”

Way Feels Years Certain Challenges Progress Years Ago Satisfying Not Happy

Author:Hiromi

“Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!”

Way Want Different Hard Can Do Progress Hard Work Patient Speed Different Ways Be Patient Can Do Something

Author:Hiromi

“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

“I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.”

Way Want Helping Hands School Teacher Progress Example Tests Profession Attractive Principal Curriculum Great Teacher Best Teacher Preps School Curriculum

Author:Wendy Kopp

“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

“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

“The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.”

Way Long Can Do Progress Bed Tools Innovation Fantastic Lasting New Ways Parasites Mosquitoes Malaria Long Lasting

Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

Thinking World Way Doe Real Reality Today Culture Progress Dying Disease Findings Cures Around The World Gentle

Author:Leanne Pooley

“Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.”

People Knows Way Want Littles Has Beens Made Company Progress Products Industry Disease Messages Dollars Billions Selling Made It Femininity Packages Cosmetics

Author:Ravida Din

“The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.”

Way Culture Term Behinds Issues Progress Corporate Corporations Corporate Culture Arkansas

Author:Liza Featherstone

“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

“If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Looks Ends States Done Faces Progress Constant Diamond

Author:Suraj Sharma

“Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.”

Way Art Individual Social Loses Attitude Progress Depends Diversity Spring Patterns Tolerance Conventional Imperatives Adjustment Deviation Conventional Ways

Author:Alan Barth

“Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new 'program' to introduce. No! The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.”

“What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.”

Way War Black Progress Drug Happenings Primaries War On Drugs Culprit

Author:Eugene Jarecki

“God offers to His children the promise of a glorious and infinite existence and has provided a way for us to progress in knowledge and glory until we receive a fulness of joy. He has promised us all that He has.”

Way Children Joy Existence Progress Promise Offers Glory Infinite Glorious

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“The best way to progress is the path of freedom.”

Way Path Progress Best Way

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Religion does a lot of good, especially the loving kind, like at Grace Church. I know people who went to a more liberal kind of Christianity and were happy with that. The problem is, for me, there was a process involved in moving from Pentecostalism to a more liberal theology, like Grace Church. What makes me different is that process didn't stop, and it took me all the way. In the end, I couldn't help feeling that all religion, even the most loving kind, is just a speed bump in the progress of the human race.”

People Knows Way Humans Kind Doe Different Ends Helping Feelings Problem Moving Process Church Race Christianity Grace Progress Involved Speed Theology Human Race Bumps Speed Bumps

Author:Jerry DeWitt

“By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.”

Way Growth Natural Progress Industry Lows Labor Productivity Immigration Technological Subsidies Technological Progress

Author:Mark Krikorian

“If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress will be downplayed and every setback amplified. In this way, Democrats can continue to rely on lopsided black support at the polls.”

Ifs Way Feels Black Support Progress Democrat African American Rely Oppressed Polls Setback Despised Handicapped

Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“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

“Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.”

“It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.”

Way Long Stills Country Running Progress Majors African American Corporations Remarkable Governors Senators Long Way Long Way To Go

Author:Dana Bash

“It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.”

People Way Young Life Is Compassion Creative Progress Innovation Productivity Compassionate Creative People Way To Live

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“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.”

“Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“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

“Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.”

Way Action Force Saws Progress Supplements Passivity Vindictive

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode down to the pattern-recognition space; and from pattern recognition into the rules-based mode. This is the mechanism by which less-trained people are enabled to do more sophisticated things. This is always the way disruption happens. It enables a larger population of less-experienced people to do more sophisticated things.”

People Way Important Problem Happens Used Space Progress Important Things Patterns Population Recognition Mechanism Sophisticated Problem Solving Disruption Scientific Progress

Author:Clayton Christensen

“I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.”

Way Should Facts Lines Attention Progress Reader Conscious Should Have Interiors Cadence

Author:Billy Collins

“I'm okay with standing in my way and in turn allowing it to impede my progress, but I'm okay with the struggle of overcoming obstacles despite myself.”

Way Turns Struggle Progress Standing Okay Overcoming Obstacles Despite My Way Allowing

Author:Josh McDermitt

“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.”

Thinking Way Made Country Bigs Wealth Progress Trade International China Japan Expansion International Trade

Author:Amartya Sen

“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.”

“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 United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer.”

People Ifs Way Years Said Wanted Nations United Five Progress Events Decided Organization Glasses Lawyer Five Years They Said Refugee United Nations Ceilings Multinationals Glass Ceiling

Author:John Gimlette

“Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.”

Way Wells Country Reason Progress Land College Republican Workers British Educated Reform Grants Farmers Educate Other Countries Jewels Consensus Well Educated American Success

Author:Charles R. Morris

“I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.”

People Way Two Faces Three Progress Becoming Enlightened Combat Homophobia Three Ways

Author:Leslie Jordan

“Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.”

“As an organisation [Not for Sale] we use social media on a daily basis as a way to share the impact of how our support is having on individuals and communities. By building awareness, education and updating interested parties on the progress of the projects.”

Way Use Individual Social Community Party Support Progress Share Awareness Media Building Projects Bases Impact Social Media Organisation

Author:David Batstone

“Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.”

Way Trying Progress Journey Areas Blocked My Journey Work In Progress

Author:Lauren Bowles

“I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of "progress." I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.”