Quotes About Progress

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

There is always a time to move on.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.