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Letter "P" » Progress
«It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.»
«Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.»
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
| About:
Achievement,
Courage,
Optimism,
Progress
| Keywords:
foundation, optimism, The Foundation
«Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress.»
Author: Sierra Club Slogan
| About:
Progress
«It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Progress,
Technology
| Keywords:
appallingly, become, exceeded, has, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, obvious, technologies, technology, that
«It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world's progress has come out of such loneliness.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
| About:
Loneliness,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
compel, occasionally
«I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.»
«Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
charter, chartered, charters, The Gap, The Powers That Be, unwritten
«Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Perfection,
Possessions,
Power,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
driven, e'en, external, increasingly, insatiable, materialistic, nowadays, possessions, reaching, striving, vast, zenith
«It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Change,
Humanity,
Inspiration,
Progress
| Keywords:
able, going, has-been, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, ITS, known, where
«Life is a progress, and not a station.»
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