Progresser Quotes & Sayings

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote. — Peter Krause

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

She ate the stars and swallowed the earth,
She is the girl with all the power. — Zoraida Cordova

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done. — Nicholas Lea

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light. — Questlove

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau. — Tony Curtis

I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward. — Christopher Bollen

The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, ... has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' ... it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control. — Alfie Kohn

Really, I protest
what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? — Jude Morgan

Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas ... scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon. — Frank J. Tipler

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn. — Florence Welch

A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself. — Sidney Abbott