With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other.
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.
As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.
Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full creative potential. And that is why I vehemently fight against it.
Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.
The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
When I was working on 'Deadwood', it was understood that the script was a work in progress, and when we got to set, everyone would kind of work on it together.
I personally believe in progress. I think one of the most debilitating and harming things you can do to a child is to keep them in the dark.
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
