Pastoral Resources

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

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.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.