Quotes About Progress

Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

As human beings, we need to evolve with time, and if you fail to do that, your existence will suffer.

By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that we put each other through.

For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I've had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.

I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

I want to be competitive but I need to smooth some of the edges or I will be the one who suffers.

It doesn't suffice to knock the state, to destroy the ideals. Something has to replace those ideals if they're taken away.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

Although many of us consider ourselves forward-thinkers, we still cling tenaciously to the old values of the monetary system. We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

I think what Sheryl Sandberg said about the importance of 'leaning in' is very true, but it's not sufficient.

I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.

I believe that overall if you want a growing economy what you have got to have is sufficient flexibility to allow that to happen.