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Quotes about progress
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Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. (Obama Barack)
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. (Obama Barack)
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress. (Obama Barack)
Progress is the stride of God. (Obama Barack)
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I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am. (Obama Barack)
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still. (Obama Barack)
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. (Obama Barack)
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it. (Obama Barack)
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools. (Obama Barack)
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? (Obama Barack)
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. (Obama Barack)
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. (Obama Barack)
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time. (Obama Barack)
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. (Obama Barack)
Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on. (Obama Barack)
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow! (Obama Barack)
Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving. (Obama Barack)
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge. (Obama Barack)
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. (Obama Barack)
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. (Obama Barack)
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. (Obama Barack)
Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest. (Obama Barack)
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. (Obama Barack)
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. (Obama Barack)
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. (Obama Barack)
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