Quotes About Progress

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I always substitute the word 'feedback' for 'failure.'

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focus on the Word and the Will of God. While we are on the go, I mean, while we are on the mission, we need to sometimes stop at intervals to assess our progress and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead.

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.

I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

It's depression. You can't put it into words. You get stuck and time passes by. I'm stood there on the edge of a cliff, can't go back and can't go forward. Days go by. I'm still in the same place. Everyone else's life goes on, but you're stuck. You try and try and try and I don't know how, but you came out of it eventually.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

It is hard to put into words how grateful I am to continue my career with ESPN.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.

Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.