Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

“That helps expedite the process of getting the water off the land and into the river systems. Those two factors (temperatures and drainage) are raising flags, and something we're going to have to keep a close eye on as the month progresses.”

“The return of this many people is a truly remarkable achievement. It is a clear demonstration of the progress made in the Liberian peace process and is a testament to the joint efforts of UN humanitarian agencies backed up by a successful UN peacekeeping operation.”

If you have attributes that you could use less productively last year than you can this year (meaning you are more productive), then you have made progress. The opposite equates to regression.

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

“We clearly still have some work to do and fair gaps to compensate. We see some progress in 2006, but this will be multiyear progress.”

“We'll find out as this season progresses,”

“Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow”

“The best road to progress is freedom's road.”

“Miguel's bat is a work in progress, (too),”