But now, when you have this trend line, how do we measure progress?

Why are we not thinking of the progress of nations in these terms, instead of just how much stuff we have?

We should look at how society and culture in this socio cultural regulation are a work in progress.

We have seen time and time again how conflict and instability in developing countries have destroyed fragile social, environmental and economic progress.

We should therefore rather focus on how to achieve success in Abuja, so that our progress can continue and we can plan for the return of people.

It is remarkable how uneven progress has been in several areas.

The September summit, we hope, can produce great progress on those issues, but we must get down to work forthwith and consider how we might give new momentum to United Nations counter terrorism activities.

Have we made progress?

We have made progress.

It is time, we think, to take stock of what lessons have been learned, what progress has been made, what gaps need to be filled, and how best we can fill them.

Now, the idea that all of this represents, I think, is rapidly becoming a common sense and part of how we respond to the crisis, recognizing the need to invest in innovation for social progress as well as technological progress.

It is clear that in six months, we can assess progress on management reform issues and then decide how to address resource questions for the remainder of 2006.

How crazy is that? That our measure of progress, our dominant measure of progress in society, is measuring everything except that which makes life worthwhile?

And it really helps me to understand how we see, how we hear, how we breathe, how our brain can inform or mislead us.

That's progress when we prove things wrong.

We have measured our progress very rigorously.

But how will we know? How will we come to know?

How do we spoil it? Well how do we spoil anything?

The outcome of the Council s June meeting was encouraging, and we must continue on that path in the coming months to make progress on two equally important issues how to foster innovation and the digital economy, and how to ensure Europe s manufacturing competitiveness.

And that change is forcing us to question quite fundamental aspects of our society how we keep ourselves healthy, how we govern ourselves, how we educate ourselves, how we keep ourselves secure.

It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.

Spirituality? And how about how we socialize?

So, it turns out we actually had this idea nine years ago, and that's about the time constant for how long it takes to do these kinds of things, so I think we made a lot of progress.

And we had progress in the free media.

We used to boast about fast social progress.

We welcome the Secretary General's latest progress report.

But I feel that we should make progress.

That is your proposal as I understand it, and on that basis I think we can make some additional progress, depending on how the formulations of the other agenda items turn out.

It is about how we invest and it's about how we see women.

It is about how we invest and it's about how we see women.

We have a long way to go, probably in a climate that will not turn favorable to immigration for many years. How much progress we can make will hinge on our ability to break through the myths about migration.

And therefore progress depended on learning how to reject the authority of learned men, priests, traditions and rulers.

And that led us to then completely rethinking how we draw, how we work.

We have seen elsewhere that, no matter how difficult and imperfect progress may be, with political will and the support of the international community, it is possible to move forward, away from conflict.

Regrettably, despite the progress we are making, we are not achieving those goals.

To make progress, we need to break the code.

And we forget there is no progress without change.

But it tells us that we know how to create it, we know how to create it cost effectively, we know how to handle it safely.

A lot of how we decide, how we're supposed to react to things and what we're supposed to expect about the future depends on how we bucket things and how we categorize them.

Coal and gas are burned in huge and growing amounts to produce electricity and to provide energy for industry. How, then, can we sustain worldwide economic progress while cutting back sharply on carbon emissions?

It is to be expected that the majority of research findings are rapidly contradicted and refuted indeed, it is part of how progress of science occurs. However, we need to adapt to this situation.

Where there is accountability we will progress where there is none we will underperform.

We care how we make our profit.

And we're starting to be much more careful about how we save and how we invest.

There's plenty of time for us to reconsider how we use it, how we build it.