Quotes About Progress

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.

It's inevitable that you find out about your true self. There was so much I realized I had to work on, to try to improve.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is front and center.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now.

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

I truly believe in the bright future that awaits us once we leave the E.U.

We must develop a truly global roadmap to eradicate all forms of discrimination still suffered by women.

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

I happen to truly believe this: Success is a journey and not a destination.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

One should not encourage division on the basis of religion, region, caste, or creed if one wants India to truly rise as one of the greatest nations of the world.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.