Quotes About Progress

I don't know if I'll ever feel like I've made it. That is part of the reason why all of us, as artists, are always wanting more and working towards more and keeping busy. There is just so much that we all want to accomplish, and I just have so many goals that I haven't met yet.

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.

Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

It's unfortunate that all business gets painted as wanting to oppose the environment and slow change.

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.

There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

I think anyone in life, everyone in the world, no matter what work they do, they should think of wanting to get on, to win, improve.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.