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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. – Ogden Nash	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. – Gaius Petronius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. – Jim Rohn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things. – David M. Shoup	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. – Herbert Spencer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai Ewing Stevenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. – Dr. Dale E. Turner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have arrived believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid. – Dr. Dale E. Turner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Progress is not created by contented people. – Frank Tyger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. – Frederick Wilcox	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality. – Sir Eric Ashby	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. – Michelle Burford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. – Charles W. Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress...Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. – Wendell Willkie	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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