#ogres

Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.' ↗

— John Stamos

#been #called #charlie #chocolate #factory

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ↗

— Albert Camus

#learning #lies #only #progress #real

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am. ↗

— Henry J. Kaiser

#am #around #assume #everyone #having

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#economy #fact #growth #had #hemorrhaging

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#become #effective #emissions #epa #introduced

Nothing recedes like progress. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#nothing #progress #recedes

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitute #constructive #did #direction #federalism

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. ↗

— Millard Fillmore

#mistake #progress #strange

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#actress #business #camera #chance #direct

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase