Inventions have long-since reached their limit–and I see no hope for further developments.” — Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the word “progress.” At the time it seemed to me that this word had...

We are encouraged by the company’s progress in expanding its installed base while improving its financial model.

On a purely humanitarian level we feel sorry for Mr. Sharon. Mr. Sharon has made some minimal progress, but he never believed in the . . . peace process.

We know Prada have had a strong development lately. But also we have made huge progress.

To restrict oneself and somewhat settle under a particular sexual essence is to limit our expression and individual progress.

They say to never look back.But sometimes I do. It’s gratifying to see how far I’ve come.

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

We’ve made great progress,

We’re making progress, but we’re not yet there.

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees...

Self motivation is essential for individual growth.

I’ve been guilty of over analyzing & under achieving.

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.

Esoteric things progress not according to time, but by activity, they can be slow or quick, depending upon the efforts made.

Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the...

While revenues are lower, we continue to be pleased with the progress we are making on our repositioning and restructuring initiatives, … In particular, our focus on gross margins and productivity improvements continue to contribute...

It is about time to see within us a real change and let it happen as we have made before we start.

War is progress, peace is stagnation

Prayers are like the powerful sounds of trumpets. When God’s people come together and pray, the walls that challenge progress will fall.

You must stand firm if you wish to lead the firm

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

The beauty of progress is that it never fails to add a new positive meaning to one’s life.

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with...

the progress of real purpose is crippled where lack of money is equated to lack of zeal

We have met again today with Blue Cross. We are making progress, in our opinion.

He has decided to interrupt his vacation to take stock of progress towards the 2005 world summit, and to support the president of the General Assembly in his efforts to ensure a successful summit.

Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early days, when the country was small and we had small population. The system...

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As...

It could be a work in progress,

Mechanism! Everywhere — mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.

If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of explicitness, one can say without fear of grand formulas that rendering the implicit explicit is the cognitive form of...

Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen “the glory of the coming of the Lord,” saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in...

If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.

Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

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

It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses–affections–vices perhaps they should be called– were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should...

As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things, and those who give precedence to suffering will be left behind. They fetter...

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of...

She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as...

A person’s own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership

There’s a strong likelihood he’ll be at camp. He has shown a lot of progress and we need to take a look at him.

You can see the progress Justin has had over the years. For him to get MVP in the Catholic Conference was a crowning accomplishment. The younger kids have looked up to him as a leader....

We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

The final result will depend on the progress of the talks on humanitarian aid … So in a way they’ve bought themselves some negotiating time.

This shows we’re making progress. This is one of the first times we put a team away. Maybe Oregon. But we really made a statement that we want to get better. And we are.

We think we’ve made a lot of progress over the last year.

Inexpensive ProgressEncase your legs in nylons,Bestride your hills with pylonsO age without a soul;Away with gentle willowsAnd all the elmy billowsThat through your valleys roll.Let’s say goodbye to hedgesAnd roads with grassy edgesAnd winding country...