Quotes About Progress

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages.

No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.

If we can come up with a way of backing up my brain into another that I have in my back-pack, we'll do it. People talk themselves out of things very easily. Things that they think are a million years away, or never, are actually four years away.

I am the first millionaire in my family.

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.

We've learned that project by project, you can't change millions and millions of lives.

In the developing world, most people don't yet live in big well-run cities. Given the chance to move to one, hundreds of millions of people would go there to get a job, get an education for their children, and live in a place that is clean, safe, and healthy.

Small acts by millions of people - imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they're likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they're likely to demand that from their leadership.

I didn't like the way I shot the ball in Milwaukee, so I worked really hard on my shooting - threes off the move and off the catch. And also continued to work on my ball-handling and my in-between game - my runners and floaters.

I'm always excited to play my hometown, but I'm kind of past the Milwaukee thing.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

It's really mind-boggling to me when I think about where I started and where I am now. It's kind of insane.

To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

If Uber wants to catch up to Google and be the leader in autonomy, we have to have the best minds. We have to have all the great minds.

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.