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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.
Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.
Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.
Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.
There is no reason to be disappointed. India will progress very fast and the skills of our youth will take India ahead.
Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don’t wait for a convenient time. It can’t be overemphasized.
When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.
Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress
I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.
I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.
If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.
The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.
This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it's happening.
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.
Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.
Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.