Quotes About Progress

Every day that you're on set is a new day to learn something. Every time you're there, there's something new that you'll notice or something that you'll miss, and you think of something new that you can do.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.

I love Teddy Roosevelt... As a country, we need to think big again.

We, as a state, need to think big. What can we do to make a splash? What can we to do to say to the world, 'Not only do we want you to invest capital here, we want you to move here?'

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

Joe Biden is a backwards thinker in a world craving forward-looking leadership.

History is not merely a procession of people in fancy dress fighting wars. It is crucially the story of man's evolution from grunting cave dweller to serious thinker, from cruelly retributive law to merciful law, from casual barbarism to care and compassion.

A legacy, or things like that, I've never really been a big thinker in that way. You know, it's kind of just been trying to go each day.

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the market around that, sometimes it can actually work for the common good. I just think that in many cases, it went too far.

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.

We're movers, forward thinkers, people who get things done. But the Tea Party and Republicans like Bob Dold are holding us back.

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

It's important to refresh the way of thinking and doing things musically. You can get so stuck in what you've done in the past that you can't move on into the future.

Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.