Quotes About Progress

Getting to the point where a cause goes from being a terribly daunting task with a handful of adherents to an acknowledged success with momentum and many allies is a rarity.

We've been around about 20 years and we only have, what, two records? We're not terribly prolific.

At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for that, and that's just terrific, and that creates inequality.

It is terrific to be involved with changing people's perceptions, and the world is changing.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

I'm not actually terrified of technology. Though I'm certainly not an early adopter, either.

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.

One of the great difficulties as you rise up through an organisation is that your prior competencies are exploded and broken apart by the territory you've been promoted into: the field of human identity.

Whenever Daesh loses territory, of course this brings me happiness.

I'm always looking to learn and am never happy with how I am going. I think once you get comfortable with what you are offering it is dangerous territory to be in.

From every little territory I've been, I've picked something up, things that I could use to better my game, to take with me, and the rest I left behind.

It's really rich territory for me as an actor to have somebody who has such a long way to go, but he's trying and getting it wrong. Because I know that I try and I get it wrong a lot of the time.

Any time you establish new territory for yourself, you've got to feel good.

I don't think that we can say that the entire educational apparatus is a failure. But we can say that the part of the apparatus that is a failure is taking over more and more territory.

Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

We succeeded in fighting terrorism - we will succeed in reconstruction.