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• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  Phil Hartman

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Career

• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

  George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

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• All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

  Gerald Durrell

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  Tags in Civilization

• And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

  Chauncey Wright

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  Tags in Civilization, Men

• In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

  Ruth First

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  Tags in Book

• For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Knowledge, Progress

  Tags in Scientific

• The thing that got me started on the science that I’ve been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can’t make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?

  Stephen Wolfram

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  Tags in Science

• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

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  Tags in Great, Problems

• People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

  Peter Thiel

  Topics in Progress, Technology

  Tags in People, Believe

• Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

  Franz Grillparzer

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  Tags in Always, Exaggerate

• Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

  Ellen Terry

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  Tags in Conceit, Obstacle

• Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

  Joyce Grenfell

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• If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn’t progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

  Richard Donner

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  Tags in Talent, Open

• The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.

  Paul Feyerabend

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• Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

  Emil Cioran

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  Tags in Injustice, Generation

• From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

  Robert James Graves

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  Tags in Daily

• Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

  William Howard Taft

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• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  Walter Lang

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  Tags in ideal, Process

• If we’re gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

  Saul Williams

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  Tags in Lie, Social

• Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.

  Walter Isaacson

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  Tags in Creativity