#progress

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world. ↗

— Richard Donner

#because #documentary #had #market #open

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#mad #progress #public #wants

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#because #been #best #debate #diplomatic

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ↗

— George Eliot

#generate #heat #instead #like #likely

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#men

Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money. ↗

— Spider Robinson

#money

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page. ↗

— Tori Amos

#moving-on #music #progress #music

It must be dawn, and the last breath went out of this body on the table - how long before? Irretrievably gone from this world, as dead as though she had lived a thousand years ago. Men have cut the isthmus of Panama and joined the two oceans; they have bored tunnels that run below rivers; built aluminum planes that fly from Frisco to Manila; sent music over the air and photographs over wires; but never, when the heartbeat of their own kind has once stopped, never when the spark of life has fled, have they been able to reanimate the mortal clay with that commonest yet most mysterious of all processes; the vital force. And this man thinks he can - this man alone, out of all the world's teeming billions! ("Jane Brown's Body") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#medicine #progress #science #death

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. ↗

— Henry Adams

#darwin #evidence #evolution #grant #president

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#argument #been #big #disappointment #few