Quotes About Progress

The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.

That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.

I really feel like I'm improving every day, not just as a tennis player but as a person and really becoming more mature in this big sport of tennis.

I started in a very small tennis club in a South American country where I never thought about becoming the best tennis player.

These close losses, when they stack up, two, three, four, five in a row, they change the tenor of a season.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.

If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

It's always good to live in future tense.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

Nigeria shed the last of a succession of brutal military dictatorships in 1997 and adopted a democratic form of government only in 1999. Our elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011 were complicated and fraught with tension, but each one has shown remarkable progress.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

I think we will be able to work with Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to reduce tension and concentrate efforts in both the countries on real problems of the people - poverty, social injustice, and development.

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

I started to get a whole lot of attention in the 10th grade. That's when I kind of came out of a little bit of a shell, or whatever, as far as basketball was concerned. I stopped being so goofy. For a high school kid, my game matured a little faster. It got better from the ninth to tenth grade.

Academically, I think things kicked off pretty late for me. I was kind of one of those kids who was in half honors, half regular. I was like a history/science kid, which was always weird. Around tenth grade or eleventh grade, everything started coming together.

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

We've all evolved as players throughout our tenure in the league.

In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.