Quotes About Progress

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Time passes. That's for sure.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.