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Quotes About Progress

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
~ Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.
~ George Ade
I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
~ Herman Cain
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
~ Robert Moog
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
~ Jesse Jackson
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.
~ Ray Dalio
Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
~ Lillian Russell
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
~ Alan Dundes
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.
~ Alan Shepard
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
~ Anne Carson
I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
~ Barack Obama
I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.
~ Bill Gates
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
~ Booker T. Washington
Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.
~ Brian Tracy
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
~ Chanakya
Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.
~ Chris Kraus
People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.
~ Colin Quinn
There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.
~ Dan Millman
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
~ David Mitchell
The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].
~ Dean Acheson
Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
~ Donald Glover
I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.
~ Cathy Freeman