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Quotes About Progress

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. I, more than anyone, wish for our customers' cars to be safe.
~ Akio Toyoda
Industry need not wish.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I'm not the All-Star point guard that everybody's dreaming about right now. I'm not that. I wish I was, but I'm a work in progress and I'm not scared to admit that. But what I am is a good citizen and a guy who's not scared to put his neck on the line for his community or for his state. And I'm always going to do that.
~ George Hill
You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.
~ David Packard
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
~ Jacque Fresco
One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
~ Taylor Swift
I think every actor would wish there is some challenge that is left. I would consider to be creatively dead if I were to say that I am satisfied now.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
~ Thomas Edward Brown
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
~ Joshua Lederberg
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
~ Theodor Herzl
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work.
~ Sydney Brenner
Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.
~ James Harden
There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.
~ Gordie Howe
What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
~ Jack Kingston
I wish I could say that we Germans have learned from our history once and for all, but I cannot say that when hatred is spreading.
~ Frank-Walter Steinmeier
I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in isolation anymore.
~ Roxie Roker
Major organizational changes create uncertainty. But the point is to move quickly - faster than you are comfortable - because in hindsight, you will always wish you had made changes even sooner.
~ Irene Rosenfeld
I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.
~ Gayle King
Direction is always on my wish list.
~ Kriti Kharbanda
To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.
~ Ariel Sharon
I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I don't feel bad about doing it. I wished I could have done better. And still do.
~ Jimmy Scott
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
~ Winston Churchill