Top 100 In Progress Quotes
#1. The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.
Amy Richards
#2. The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.
Aldo Leopold
#4. It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.
Rick Rubin
#5. Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress.
Elif Batuman
#6. Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.
Nate Silver
#7. When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Mercedes McCambridge
#8. Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.'
John Stamos
#10. There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.
Will Self
#11. As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.
Marco Rubio
#12. I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
#14. We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different.
Thomas Perez
#15. As I am a work in progress, you shall see me more or less? Don't shake me out if I digress. As of me less, from me more of my work, I guess.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#16. The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Philip Roth
#17. Achievers are those who have redefined impossible, changing what can't be done into a work in progress.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#18. The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
Christopher Hitchens
#19. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead
#20. I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.
Michael Spiller
#21. I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.
George Papandreou
#22. The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
Albert Murray
#23. Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
Holly Near
#24. Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.
Michael Merzenich
#25. The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry Pratchett
#26. Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.
Sarah Addison Allen
#27. Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
Octavia E. Butler
#28. My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
Zaha Hadid
#29. It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.
Norbert Wiener
#30. Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.
Peter Diamandis
#31. We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
Jorge Luis Borges
#32. We are all works in progress, the authors of our own lives.
Caroline James
#33. His poetry was to find the enemy and kill him. It didn't rhyme, but it was still a work in progress.
Shane VanAulen
#34. 'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.
Charles Lyell
#35. I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.
Chris Lowe
#36. The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.
Katsuya Okada
#37. Advent means "coming." Note that it is an action in progress, an act not yet accomplished, one we look forward to with renewed hope. Therefore, it is a time of expectation and preparation. It is a time of waiting and watching, of preparing our hearts and minds for the coming of Jesus Christ.
Nan Lewis Doerr
#38. I wish I was like that. More carefree."
"Anyone can be. People aren't carved out of marble. We're all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.
J.A. Konrath
#39. The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
Norbert Wiener
#40. She tried to clear her mind. She knew she needed to return to the war, already in progress.
Sharon Linnea
#41. I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
Iman
#42. I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.
Emilia Fox
#43. Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress - the solutions to today's problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow's problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Sometimes
Mark Manson
#44. Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.
Roy Acuff
#46. Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#47. The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the book on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds.
Charlotte Moss
#48. I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It's more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time.
Jewel
#49. The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.
Jonathan Culver
#51. I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
Helen Dunmore
#52. Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of society on this matter, and a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For
Anthony Trollope
#53. I'm a work in progress, and I hope I will never be complete
Nick Frost
#54. We're all works in progress, Diaz. We're all broken and bleeding and trying to fix ourselves up into something human.
Allison Van Diepen
#56. Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
Linda Ronstadt
#57. Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#58. I am a poem in progress
with no clear beginning or ending
just a middle
untended, unintended,
unfinished, hanging there
like the breath before a question
Jen Lynn Anderson
#59. What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding each second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
Thomas Crum
#60. I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.
William Gibson
#61. My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
Luanne Rice
#62. Then you do not believe in progress?" "Change is not always progress, Monseigneur.
Willa Cather
#63. Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.
T.F. Hodge
#64. I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we eat. Eat fat, and there's fat in your body. Eat protein, and there's protein in your body. Eat magic, and there's magic in your body.
Greg Van Eekhout
#65. At this Linda gave up. Children might or might not enjoy air-raids actually in progress, but a child who was not thrilled by the idea of them was incomprehensible to her, and she could not imagine having conceived such a being. Useless to waste any more time and breath on this unnatural little girl.
Nancy Mitford
#66. He was husky, barrel-chested, and my age. The belly was a work in progress. It's the name that was important. He was part-time tough, like I said. Basically he's an accountant and works at a place downtown. He's really dead?" "Well," says Manny, "I didn't check his pulse, but he was in two pieces.
Stephen Dobyns
#67. The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.
Cullen Murphy
#68. Hey, you know I might not be perfect! But I'm a wonderful work in progress!
D.C. Akers
#69. In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.
Louis A. Johnson
#70. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
Anne Lamott
#71. There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer's estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.
Annie Dillard
#72. Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.
David Lucero
#73. It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress - No admittance except on business', and particularly to warn the doorkeeper to keep out prying philosophers.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
#74. See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.
Oli Anderson
#75. An animated conversation was in progress and the woman behind the counter started airing her views about a murder case that had created some stir in Algiers. A young commercial employee had killed an Algerian on a beach.
Albert Camus
#76. We're the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter.
Francis Spufford
#77. I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#78. Truth or dare ... truth ain't fair.
Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
Belinda McBride
#79. How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.
Toni Sorenson
#80. My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.
Richard Lewis
#81. You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.
David Longstreth
#82. I remain a work in progress and will be to the day i die
Connor Franta
#83. Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P.J. Harvey
#84. Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman
#85. Humans cannot live without illusions. For the men and women of today, an irrational faith in progress may be the only antidote to nihilism. Without the hope that the future will be better than the past, they could not go on.
John N. Gray
#86. Jake, the super-dog with paranormal psychic powers, has one goal in life, to catch the moon." Jake and the Moon Ball (a work in progress)
Teri Heyer
#87. Over the past ten years, I've processed a lot. I'm still processing. And there is more to be done. But I'm very proud of the person I am today. I'm proud to be gay. I'm proud to be a reckless optimist. I'm proud to keep learning and sharing what I've learned. I'm proud to be a work in progress.
Hannah Hart
#88. Aging in Hollywood sucks. There's always so much pressure to look way younger than you are, and everyone's watching! I'd like to embrace getting older, because it's kind of inevitable. The different, wiser me, to be at peace with how I look and I'm supposed to look - it's a work in progress.
Lisa Vidal
#89. Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.
Chuck Wendig
#90. I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#91. Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me ... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.
Curtis Jackson
#92. Accept you are a work in progress, that there are things which you cannot change, others which take time to change and some which will be a shame to change.
Carol Vorvain
#93. An interesting side effect of pull systems is that they limit work-in-progress (WIP) to some agreed-upon quantity,
David J. Anderson
#94. When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
G.K. Chesterton
#95. I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.
Stevie Wonder
#97. We are the authors of our own lives, all works in progress
Caroline James
#98. Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.
Megan McCafferty
#99. The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.
Robert Genn
#100. We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress.
Gerrit W. Gong
