Quotes of: Social-progress Keyword

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

A Short History of Progress

…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to

A Pleasure and a Calling

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

The Pilgrim's Progress

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

Witches Abroad

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

Yukio Mishima's Report To The Emperor

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Earl Blumenauer

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

Ryan Phillippe

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

George Eliot

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

Jill Lepore

Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.

Nate Silver

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.

Peter Diamandis

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

Paul A.M. Dirac

One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

Phil Hartman

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Paul J. Meyer

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

Paul J. Meyer

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

Peter Singer

The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.

Robert Agostinelli

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Richard E. Byrd

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard Feynman

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

Reid Hoffman

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

Shannon Elizabeth