Relative Progress Quotes

When I started not training as hard and doing what I needed to do, everyone else improved without me improving.

I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.

Everyone eventually matches or leapfrogs everyone else.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

For Arkansas, I think the sky is the limit, but I think we are going to have to fight the urge to avoid risks. We need to look first at where we are as a state. I think, as a state, we have made progress over the years, but there are two kinds of progress: absolute progress and relative progress.

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.