Quotes About Breakthrough

Haig wanted Fourth Army to achieve a breakthrough of the first and second lines in the first phase; Rawlinson thought that if his men took the German first line in the first phase they would be doing well. This is the by-now-familiar 'breakthrough' or 'bite and hold' argument and, since Rawlinson's view prevailed, his proposals are the ones to examine.

What Joffre wanted on the Somme was not a tactical battle. As he saw it, the attempt at a breakthrough had failed and now, as so often before, the task of breaking the enemy line would get even harder. Therefore, since it was probably impossible to break through the enemy line, the next best thing was to attack all along the line, and engage the enemy in a battle that would force him to remove divisions from the Verdun front

Disruption is usually the beginning of real improvement showing up

A single big thought carries with it the ability to shatter all your barriers

To get Game-Changing results, start focusing on Game-Changing thoughts.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realization and then a little realization built on that.

It proved to be the luckiest stroke of his career.

escape the shackles of our prior experience to uncover profound and beautiful simplifications and predictions

The first great break-through—or, rather, breakdown—of society's nudity/lewdity guilt-by-association was the now-famous Marilyn Monroe calendar. Marilyn's respectability when she died was based principally upon her economic status, which is, in the final analysis, the only type our society really respects.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Begin to break limitation in your home, business, career and spiritual life, in Jesus' name!

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell .

This kind of search in the dark, with its tense desire, lasting for years, full of foreboding, with it's exhausting change form aspiration to frustration and it's final breakthrough to lucidity, all of this you only know properly if you experienced it.

I am glad you are pleased, said Mma Ramotswe. You have broken the glass ceiling that stops secretaries from reaching their full potential. Mma Makutsi looked up, as if to search for the ceiling that she had broken. There were only the familiar ceiling boards, fly-tracked and buckling from the heat. But the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel itself could not at that moment have been more glorious in her eyes, more filled with hope and joy.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Sort of like Alexander Graham Bell putting the finishing touches on the world's first and only phone . . . and then getting an incoming call.

You're about to drink wine that didn't come out of a box, remarkable. Possible Nobel Prize remarkable. I haven't begun to determine if there are any real-world applications, but on theoretical grounds this could be a huge breakthrough.

You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!" (El Filibusterismo)

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.