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  • Progress Quote #1

    A volte penso che ci sia un rapporto tra il decadimento dell'umanità e la prosperità e il benessere in cui viviamo. La prosperità e il benessere sono obiettivi anche necessari che il genere umano persegue nella sua lotta per il progresso, ma generano profonde e temibili contraddizioni. Il genere umano sta infatti distruggendo con le proprie mani alcune delle qualità che possiede.

    Mo Yan

  • Progress Quote #2

    Achievers are those who have redefined impossible, changing what can't be done into a work in progress.

    Richelle E. Goodrich

  • Progress Quote #3

    Action is traction.

    Rob Liano

  • Progress Quote #4

    After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation.
    Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

    Tom Robbins

  • Progress Quote #5

    After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

    Zeena Schreck

  • Progress Quote #6

    All creativity is a work in progress

    Dean Cavanagh

  • Progress Quote #7

    All Medicines are poisons, and all poisons should be looked at for medicinal properties.

    Pain Pus and Poison

  • Progress Quote #8

    All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

    Pawan Mishra

  • Progress Quote #9

    Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
    initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend
    makes them timorous.

    Steven Pressfield

  • Progress Quote #10

    Always put your best foot forward, because you never know where your next step may lead you.

    Stephan Labossiere

  • Progress Quote #11

    An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.

    The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

    Immanuel Kant

  • Progress Quote #12

    An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

    Terry Eagleton

  • Progress Quote #13

    An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

    Neal Stephenson

  • Progress Quote #14

    And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:
    Their only monument the asphalt road
    And a thousand lost golf balls.

    T.S. Eliot

  • Progress Quote #15

    Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you, but now is the time to stand with the slave. The time will come for us to take up the woman question, but not yet.
    The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

    Sue Monk Kidd

  • Progress Quote #16

    Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.

    Tapan Singhel

  • Progress Quote #17

    Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

    Barry Gehm

  • Progress Quote #18

    Anytime, someone gives you advice, rethink if it will lead to personal progress.

    Lailah Gifty Akita

  • Progress Quote #19

    As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things, and those who give precedence to suffering will be left behind. They fetter us with their sniveling. We have someplace to go and must believe we can get there, wherever that may be. And to conceive that there is a 'brotherhood of suffering between everything alive' would disable us from getting anywhere. We are preoccupied with the good life, and step by step are working toward a better life. What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next — as if we were playing a board game we think will never end, despite the fact that it will, like it or not. And if you are too conscious of not liking it, then you may conceive of yourself as a biological paradox that cannot live with its consciousness and cannot live without it. And in so living and not living, you take your place with the undead and the human puppet.

    Thomas Ligotti

  • Progress Quote #20

    As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

    Leon Trotsky

  • Progress Quote #21

    As a society, we've become suspicious of such acts. Out of ignorance or laziness or timidity, we've turned the Luddites into caricatures, emblems of backwardness. We assume that anyone who rejects a new tool in favor of an older one is guilty of nostalgia, of making choices sentimentally rather than rationally. But the real sentimental fallacy is the assumption that the new thing is always better suited to our purposes and intentions than the old thing. That's the view of a child, naive and pliable. What makes one tool superior to another has nothing to do with how new it is. What matters is how it enlarges us or diminishes us, how it shapes our experience of nature and culture and one another. To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly.

    Nicholas Carr

  • Progress Quote #22

    As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

    Max McKeown

  • Progress Quote #23

    As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

    G.K. Chesterton

  • Progress Quote #24

    As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

    Robert G. Ingersoll

  • Progress Quote #25

    As more and more work is done by machines, people can spend more time on other activities. Not just leisure and amusements, but also on the deeper satisfactions that come from invention and exploration, from creativity and building, and from love, friendship, and community. ... If the first machine age helped unlock the forces of energy trapped in chemical bonds to reshape the physical world, the real promise of the second machine age is to help unleash the power of human ingenuity.

    Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

  • Progress Quote #26

    As much as we all know that some things are easier said than done, we have to understand that if we don't say it, we may never do it.

    Stephan Labossiere

  • Progress Quote #27

    As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

    Germany Kent

  • Progress Quote #28

    At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.

    Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.

    Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

    When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.

    Robert G. Ingersoll

  • Progress Quote #29

    At the very time when we have been boasting of our enlightenment and knowledge and understanding, there is this tragic breakdown in personal relationships. ... For instance, we now have to have Marriage Guidance classes. Up to this century men and women were married without this expert advice which now seems to be so essential.

    D. Martyn LloydJones

  • Progress Quote #30

    Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory––away the aeroplane shot.

    Virginia Woolf

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