Quotes About Progress

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

Women tend to lag in adopting new technology quickly.

What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they've 'nailed it,' most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

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

Tech companies tend to do tech best.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we learned. But they don't really hear the story of what it takes to get a mission from scratch to the launch pad and into space.

Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

In films, we tend to come up with something new all the time. Challenges and experiments are new at every stage.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

Especially in this league, you can have a tendency to look ahead, but really, it's about one taking one day at a time, one game at a time.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.