Quotes tagged ‘Progress’

“If people always thought this way, there could never be progress or innovation or change. We would be stagnant forever, fearfully clinging to a past that was never as good as we like to pretend it was.”

— Elan Gale, twitter.com

“I think one of the saddest things about the current state of our democracy is that people seem to think they should vote based on what is best for them as individuals, rather than what is best for the country as a whole.”

— Elan Gale, twitter.com

“We've managed to slip evolution's leash now, haven't we? We can cure any disease, keep even the weakest of us alive, and, you know, one fine day perhaps we shall even resurrect the dead. Call forth Lazarus from his cave. Do you know what that means? It means that we're done. That this is as good as…”

— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“Use your insanity to get ahead.”

— John Waters, amazon.com

“I don’t for a moment believe that we can turn back the wheels of progress.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org

“In 2000, there were 11 female billionaires on the planet, according to Forbes; by 2016, there were 190.”

— Robert Frank, nytimes.com

“Of the nearly 27,000 women in the world worth $30 million or more, a third are self-made.”

— Robert Frank, nytimes.com

“Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.”

— Larry Flynt, esquire.com

“Water seems so innocent and harmless, but it is one of the most POWERFUL elements on earth. Over time, water can carve canyons, split boulders and design some of the world's most breathtaking creations. Understand that progress and change takes time, but it's possible. Just be patient.”

— Cassey Ho, instagram.com

“American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.”

— Nora Ephron, wellesley.edu

“Freely and madly; you will make progress... Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately... Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result.”

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

“...progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

“It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that's a much easier way to get…”

— Barry Goldwater, nytimes.com

“It is not strange…to mistake change for progress and the invasion of the rights of others for national prowess and glory.”

— Millard Fillmore, presidentialrhetoric.com

“Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.”

— Andy Stanley, amazon.com

“From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.”

— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org

“These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com

“Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.”

— Sydney Brenner, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”

— Simon Sinek, twitter.com

“Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.”

— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com