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Quotes About Progress

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.
~ Ray Stannard Baker
I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.
~ Raymond Pettibon
If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
~ Rebecca West
I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.
~ Reeva Steenkamp
Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.
~ Richard Attias
I do believe the harder you work, the luckier you get.
~ Richard Branson
Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.
~ Richard Clarke Cabot
We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.
~ Rick Riordan
The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.
~ Unknown
I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.
~ Rineke Dijkstra
I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
~ Robert Barry
I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.
~ Robert Barry
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.
~ Robert Browning
Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
~ Robert Caro
It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.
~ Unknown
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Don't ever confuse motion with progress.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.
~ Robert McKee
You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.
~ Robert Redford
Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.
~ Robert S. Kaplan
The missing links in my life's work, no less!
~ Robert Wyatt
Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.
~ Robin Sharma