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Quotes About Progress

Architecture is the work of nations
~ John Ruskin
Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
~ Samina Baig
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
~ Scott Adams
Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.
~ Sigourney Weaver
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.
~ Steven Pressfield
We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.
~ Stewart Butterfield
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.
~ Tim Gould
All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
~ Usain Bolt
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
~ Vernor Vinge
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
~ Bertrand Russell
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.
~ Bertrand Russell
I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.
~ Bjork
The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work
~ Bryan Caplan
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
~ Cathy Guisewite
The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.
~ Charles Hard Townes
Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it
~ Charles Sheldon
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
~ Christopher Love
Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up
~ Cyprian Norwid
From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
~ David Byrne
Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.
~ Dennis Crowley
Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.
~ Dorothy Hamill
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
~ Douglas Trumbull
That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.
~ Dustin Hoffman
If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!
~ Edward Weston