Progressive Development Quotes

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

Everything can be improved.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

We should not place artificial limits on the intellectual work of our gifted scientists to explore new technologies, to understand what is possible …

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.

Men in masses do not forget the main gains of their civilization, and that, in spite of deteriorations, their tendency is upward.

The duration of every political phase is just as long as it takes to unveil its shortcomings and evil. While discovering its defects, it makes way for a new phase, liberated from these failings. Thus, these impairments that appear in a situation and destroy it are the very forces of human evolution, as they raise humanity to a more corrected state.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

I think we always have to put forth music that's better than the last.

No great thing happens suddenly.

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

The frontier is not merely a dramatic imagery but a very real process, indeed the basic socio-technical process that informs the experience of certain people and countries. As a process, it is dynamic and essentially progressive, although fraught with problems of its own, as is every other dimension of human life.

… ideas are structures built over time, each part added by a new generation.