“I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. Look what's happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said, "You're crazy." But it's a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn't - you know - be despairing because it's never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.” ThinkingMenWorldRealityTodayProgressCrazyFemaleLifetimeRemarkableRealistEmancipationIdealist Author:Benjamin B. Ferencz
“In the business world, there are systems and processes for just about everything else. Yet creativity and innovation, arguably THE most important aspects of progress, are often left to happen by chance. The system provides a scaffolding for creative support and exploration, yet is open enough to avoid curbing creativity or outputting cookie-cutter solutions.” WorldImportantEnoughChanceCreativitySupportCreativeProgressSolutionsInnovationExplorationScaffolding Author:Josh Linkner
“Iraq is fragile and may fall back into a devastating setting. We're not making the kind of progress in Afghanistan that had been promised. And our esteem around the world has fallen. I can't think of a major country. It's hard to think of a single country that has greater respect and admiration for America today than it did five years ago when Barack Obama became President. And that's a very sad, unfortunate state of affairs.” ThinkingWorldKindCountryTodayFallPresidentProgressAffairEsteemBarackFallenAdmirationAfghanistanUnfortunateFall BackVery Sad Author:Mitt Romney
“I have a personal staff that helps me scour the internet and other media for the latest scientific peer-reviewed findings, the latest examples of climate-related extreme weather events, and the latest examples of progress. The world is in the midst of a sustainability revolution that has the scope of the industrial revolution, but with the speed of the digital revolution. That's not enough without new laws and the right kind of political leadership. But it does give us a base from which to build a movement that will save us from the most catastrophic consequences of the climate crisis.” WorldGivingKindEnoughHelpingPoliticalProgressRevolutionInternetConsequenceCrisisSpeedHelp MeSustainabilityIndustrial Revolution Author:Al Gore
“We are making tremendous progress that ISIS really does present to the homeland and to other homelands of allies around the world.” WorldProgress Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“In India you would find people who belong to the 10 richest people in the entire world, and you would find people whose poverty levels are sub-Saharan in fact practically: people who would probably make less than a dollar a day or would only have enough for one meal. Now, to have these kinds of contrasts coexist, is something which boggles my mind. We have a country that is making great economic progress, a country that is making his presence felt all over the world, but at the same time, it is unable to deal with some of these fundamental contradictions in our economic evolution.” PeopleWorldMindKindCountryEnoughPovertyProgressEconomicEvolutionContradictionContrastCoexist Author:Cyril Shroff
“I really believe that even with all of our problems, we're still the best nation in the world. The idea of the United States is why millions of people want to come here every year. The reality is sometimes different, and we certainly have many things to fix, but I really believe that we have in our national DNA the ability to be a great nation that leads the way to progress.” PeopleWorldBelieveDifferentSometimesProblemRealityAbilityProgress Author:Valerie Plame
“What's most striking is that the world as a whole has made remarkable progress against hunger, poverty and disease. I believe in God, and I see that hundreds of millions of people have escaped from poverty in places like Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Brazil and Britain. That's why, for me, it makes sense that this is God moving in our history.” PeopleWorldBelieveMovingI BelievePovertyProgressHungerMake SenseRemarkableBelieve In GodI Believe In GodEthiopia Author:David Beckmann
“I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated. And if we are looking at the region as a whole and communicating a message to the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are ready to initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest, then I think that we can make significant progress.” ThinkingWorldTermInterestProgressImpossibleConflictCommunicateSignificantMutualAfghanistanPartnershipSyriaMutual Respect Author:Barack Obama
“And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.” ThinkingWorldNeedsPathProgressContinents Author:John Dramani Mahama
“My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.” WorldAmericaSocialProgressGenerationsBrotherExpectedMy BrotherBetter PlaceDaddyOur GenerationSocial Progress Author:Wynton Marsalis
“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.” IfsMenWorldProgressLonelinessLonelyEvery ManBeing AloneBeing LonelyLoneliness And SolitudeI Am LonelyLonely And AloneAlone LonelyLike Being AloneLonely ManLonely World Author:Bruce Barton
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.” WorldHappinessProgressInspirational LifeDiscontentNursing Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not