progress measurement Quotes

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.

You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Your direction is more important than your speed.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.

Growth solves (nearly) all problems

I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

Startups, in some sense, have gotten so easy to start that we are confusing two things. And what we are confusing, often, is, 'How far can you get in your first day of travel?' with, 'How long it is going to take to get up to the top of the mountain?'

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

The way we have to measure progress is not, "Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?" It's, "How does the majority of our country respond?"

We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find the meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.