Like everybody, I’ve had a lot of pain in my life and I’m a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up. – Walton Goggins
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it’s a motherhood statement, all of us like it. – Sellapan Ramanathan
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. – Valerie Jarrett
In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress. – Tim Murphy
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. – Simone Weil
We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress. – Shigeru Yoshida
Generally, I don’t like publicity on docs in progress, much less ones that are only in development; I’ve always tried to stay under the radar in terms of any press, especially with regard to the subjects of the film. I don’t want them to be thinking about the film or funding or what the public reaction is going to be. – Steve James
Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people. – Tom Frieden
We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government. – Tim Scott
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. – Thomas J. Watson
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant – ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does. – Shashi Tharoor
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. – Vernor Vinge
As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing. – Vincent Frank
A screenwriter heard me read from my novel ‘The Wishbones’ when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result. – Tom Perrotta
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. – Ulysses S. Grant
White Americans believe we’ve made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom ’12 Years a Slave’ documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations. – Steve Erickson
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. – Wendell Phillips
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress. – Wen Ho Lee
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground. – W. E. B. Du Bois
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T. S. Eliot
People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent. – Tim Kaine
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. – Wynton Marsalis
You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time – it has to progress or it can’t survive. – Sturgill Simpson
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better. – Tom Odell
I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy, but I didn’t say, ‘I want to lost 10 pounds every month!’ Instead, I said, ‘I will lose two to three pounds.’ I eventually saw progress, and that made me work harder. – Tia Mowry
I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. – Thomas Mann
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem – more profound, I think – is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don’t progress. People interact but don’t make contact. – Walter Kirn
I mean, comedy’s hard. If you go back and look at the first season of ‘Seinfeld,’ it’s a work in progress and that’s what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers. – Zachary Knighton