Quotes by Progress What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities. Alfred Korzybski progress reality ideas Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. Alfred North Whitehead progress evolution language It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. Alfred North Whitehead future progress civilization Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. Alfred North Whitehead progress motivation ideas Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger. Alfred North Whitehead length-of-life progress past There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit. Alfred North Whitehead progress party attitude Error is the price we pay for progress. Alfred North Whitehead progress errors pay Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work. Ali Banisadr progress want littles Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many. Alice Walker progress revolution People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't. Alice Walker progress people thinking Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong. Allan Sandage progress process self To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. Allen Toussaint progress new-orleans pace Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. Alphonso Jackson progress black school Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Alvin Toffler hazards progress technology There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change. Ama Ata Aidoo progress powerful people Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent Amartya Sen reduction deprivation progress PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress. Ambrose Bierce progress christian religion DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. Ambrose Bierce degradation progress political The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history. Amilcar Cabral progress made today Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them. Amin Maalouf gratitude progress race «1234567891011»
