Quotes by Progress She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress? Ann Brashares progressthreeyears The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible. Ann Douglas progressrightsculture Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress. Anna Olson progressturtlesneeds It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds. Anna Pavlova tangibleprogresshumanity New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage. Anna Quindlen progresscitiesnew-york Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur. Anne Lamott progressblessinghealing When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. Anne Lamott scratchesprogresspraying The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky. Anne Lamott sneakytruth-isprogress Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? Anne Morrow Lindbergh progress The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it. Anne Truitt progressshapesdevelopment There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged. Annie Dillard progressqualityfeelings If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. Annie Dillard progressnovelistsunderstanding I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses. Anthony Bourdain progresscupscoffee People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change. Anthony de Mello progresspainpeople Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough. Anthony Stafford Beer progresscarland The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'. Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart progressexpectationsscience Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future. Anthony Trollope progressbodygiving It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. Anthony Trollope progressparentambition Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. Antoine de Saint-Exupery progressdiscoverymen A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery progressmencivilization«1234567891011»
