Quotes About Progress

You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.

I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through crowds of men. There was no legal protection against 'hostile environments for women.'

We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.

Since 1987, there are now many more of us as at the higher levels with families, so I think, as role models, we are encouraging more women to stay within banking and rise up through the ranks.

Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

Coming through the youth ranks at Fulham is a great honour to me.

We were fortunate enough to have our own business to keep us moving up through the ranks - go-karts, Bandoleros, Legend cars, Late Models. That's where we stalled out, but luckily we caught a break with Joe Gibbs Racing and the diversity program.

If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.

I remember the first couple of years when I was coming up through the ranks, some of the old-timers would take me aside after the match and critique me.

Of course, United have always bought brilliant players. But you see Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard, who have come through the ranks, and before them Scholesy, Giggsy and Becks, who were given a chance to develop as players.

After the first three or four years of me taking rap seriously, it started to look more promising. I started booking shows and more people were playing my music, so I starting believing this could actually work for me.

I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'

Rap evolves and to still be current you have to evolve with it! Get in front or get left behind.

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

What is feminism? We are just asking for equal opportunities, nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean that you cannot be pretty or you cannot cook or you can't do a whole lot of things. Feminism's got a bad rap; that's it.

When I joined this band, I never thought of myself as a singer. I just did whatever I could, which was rap. And then, over time, I've grown, and we've developed and tried different things. It all happened gradually and naturally.

The rap community know that I'm doing very well. They're embracing me... They like the flavour.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization.

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.

If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been long gone. The rapid pace of hardware evolution still keeps things fresh for me.

In a liberal democracy rapid, radical and fundamental economic change must benefit the many not the few, if it is to gain popular, long-term political support.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.