Quotes About Progress

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

Positive thinking is a habit, like everything else, you get better at it with time.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening