Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Problems are the price you pay for progress.
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.
I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.
The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.
By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
All things can be forgiven if we can progress.
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
