Quotes About Progress

It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.

I think that what we did in 2015 as a team was phenomenal, and I think in, now, 2019, we have similar players but a lot of different players.

I think it's an amazing thing, the way people can change and open up. It shows how humanity is still alive in the world and how we can get better. We're the most adaptable, phenomenal machines ever created.

Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

In Los Angeles, we've seen a phenomenon where a school will go from one that no one will go to, to within three years becoming the 'hot' school. I've seen this over and over again.

It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throughout history have also observed this phenomenon - that growth seems to move in two directions at the same time.

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

I would like philanthropists to take more risks and invest more in risk capital.

Indian philanthropy doesn't take enough risk.

I see the Philippines one day as a developed country, one of the major economies of Asia - perhaps not in six years, but definitely in our lifetime.

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

Orlando gave me a lot since I came here, and it gave me a chance to become who I am as a player since I came here from Philly.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who inscribed an epigram from his philosophy of positivism in the national flag: Order and Progress.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

Philosophy changes day by day.

Modi is marching forward on the basis of the BJP's philosophy.

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.