The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As soon as the war was won, England, France, and Italy tried to frustrate Wilson's program because it was in conflict with their imperialist policies. As a consequence, the Peace Treaty was one of the most unequal treaties ever negotiated in history.
The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.
For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made.
We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.
Alabama has made great progress in proving that BP, Halliburton, and Transocean are liable for the devastating effects of the oil spill.
It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.
There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.
