Quotes About Progress

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.

The first time I worked out I almost threw up. I did not feel good at all. My friend said, 'You have to get past the first month, you're going to feel so much better.' And she was right: After about 30 or 40 days, I saw changes.

Our first iteration of driverless cars kind of drove like trolleys on a track. This uncanny notion threw people off.

Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.

It depends on the arrangement. It could take 3 hours, it could take 3 days, it could take a week. 'Thrift Shop' took one arrangement session. We did it all in a circle that day. 'Evolution of Music' and 'Evolution of Beyonce' took a bunch of different sessions.

Any time you're in the coaching business or managing in the minor leagues, when you see a player who has made it to the major leagues, you get a thrill out of that.

I get more ambitious every decade, and I am more ambitious today than ever before. I still love the game - and the thrill of the chase.

I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.

Seeing something go from concept to execution is a thrill to me.

It's a blessing in a scientific career - the almost daily thrill of scientific discovery.

I am thrilled to be joining United. I have enjoyed some very happy years at Chelsea, but the time has come for a new challenge.

I am very thrilled with my newfound identity post 'Metro.'

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Whatever I've done, if it's to represent something, to move something forward, if that's how it's being put, I'm thrilled. But it's really about our children's generation. They're three and one. Can you imagine, when they're in their 30s, what things will be like?

I just hope that in some ways, 'Minari' can pave the way for other filmmakers, other actors, other projects that maybe don't fit within traditional boxes - if it helps those films get made in the future, I'd be so thrilled.

I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.