top of page
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes

"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."

Standard 
 Customized
"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."

Exlpore more Progress quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There comes some special times that you got to keep "impossibility thinkers" behind you and walk with those are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only option to keep you going!"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The best road to progress is freedom's road."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression."

Explore more quotes by Alan Dundes

Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."
Quote_1.png
Alan Dundes
"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."
bottom of page