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Quotations regarding 'Progress'

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Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese Athlete (1883-1969)
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike, American Novelist (1932-2009)
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
Alfred de Vigny, French Poet (1797-1863)
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge, American Writer (1944-  )
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Voltaire, French Writer (1694-1778)
Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south.
Greg Walden, American Politician (1957-  )
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
Alice Walker, American Author (1944-  )
We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.
Mary A. Ward, -
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren, American Judge (1891-1974)
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Mercy Otis Warren, American Playwright (1728-1814)
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Harold Washington, American Politician (1922-1987)
That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
Harold Washington, American Politician (1922-1987)
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist (1874-1956)
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist (1874-1956)
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil, French Philosopher (1909-1943)
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician (1861-1947)
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician (1861-1947)
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician (1861-1947)
Well, one thing that has happened is they have had a presidential election in Egypt which has represented progress. Now, we were not happy with everything that happened with the parliamentary elections, and it was not exactly a perfect presidential election in Egypt.
Roger Wicker, American Politician (1951-  )
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Norbert Wiener, American Mathematician (1894-1964)
 
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