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Quotations by Subject: Progress
(Related Subjects: Technology, Science, Change)
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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)


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