#progress

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#excuses #finished #gonna #i #like

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

#courteous #elders #explored #farther #helpful

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#firmly #highest #learns #lesson #progress

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#day #decision #deed #final #final analysis

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress. ↗

— Maimonides

#i do #know #progress #say #shalt

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. ↗

— Karl Marx

#anything #changes #exactly #fair #feminine

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. ↗

— Karl Marx

#measured #position #progress #sex #social

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#great #iraq #iraqis #know #making

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#goals #personal #personal goals #predetermined #progressive