“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production”

“What this means is that, e. g., a basically satisfied person no longer has the needs for esteem, love, safety, etc. The only sense in which he might be said to have them is in the almost metaphysical sense that a sated man has hunger, or a filled bottle has emptiness”

“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers, that is to say, those who have private, personal, transcendent, core-religious experiences easily and often and who accept them and make use of them, and, on the other hand, those who have never had them or who repress or suppress them and who, therefore, cannot make use of them for their personal therapy, personal growth, or personal fulfillment.”

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”

“In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.”

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”

“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

"Progress was all right. Only it went on too long."

"The progress that I've made in two days has been tremendous, ... I think one week at the most and I'll be ready to go."

"Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. "

"THE motherland is not a mere lump of earth. When we desire its progress, we have to promote the progress of the people who dwell therein."

"Your progress is reflected back as Grace, your decline is reflected back as its absence. The mirror just reflects. It has no partiality or prejudice."

"I'm really happy with the way things have progressed and improved since we've returned from that tour,"

"There's progress in a lot of areas but a lot of things we have to execute better. Our main thing is you want to get better week to week and be ready for opening day, and we got better last week."

"We deeded something away, ... I'm very concerned, but I think we're making progress. We are really going to get into the inner cities."

"We've made some progress on a lot of issues. But progress in the end is when you have a deal."

"We deeded something away. I'm very concerned, but I think we're making progress. We are really going to get into the inner cities."

"This program would clearly allow for the forgiveness of loans,"

"There's a strong likelihood he'll be at camp. He has shown a lot of progress and we need to take a look at him."