Advances Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Begins, Ends

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

Government, Science, Greatest

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Human, Bored

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

Good, Thought, Country

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.
Billy Graham

Thankful, Place, Here

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Friendship, Alone

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison

Made, Living, Between

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Important, Thinking, Number

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton

Science, Honor, Higher

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Knowledge, Might

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty, Good, Grace

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
Deepak Chopra

Body, Less, Knows

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Marshall McLuhan

Age, Technology, Yourself

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Mistake, Rid, Uncover

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
Gustave Flaubert

Humanity, Degraded

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
Thabo Mbeki

Freedom, Next, Foundation

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Jean de la Bruyere

Patience, Long, Road

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
Noam Chomsky

Place, Far, Ability

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer

Change, Science, Important

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
A. N. Wilson

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
Arthur Erickson

Coming, Innovation, Abroad

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Henry Hazlitt

Past, Fact, Ideas

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.
Ibrahim Babangida

Technology, Humanity, Reason

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
Ralph Merkle

Technology, Medical, Human

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
Larry Page

Society, Problem, Around

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
Erica Jong

Book, Down, Write

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Nature, Good, Through

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