#progress

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#appeared #asia #been #countries #developing

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fatal #growth #idea #inside #leaving

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

Nothing recedes like progress. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#nothing #progress #recedes

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#declaration #first #independence #interdependence #personality

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#another #call #exchange #nuisance #progress

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

— Millard Fillmore

#mistake #progress #strange

Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#also #democracy #economy #expanding #freedoms

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#because #definitely #drawn #get #happens

In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#been #changes #everyone #hold #levels