Quotes About Progress

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

When you are yourself involved in a project so much, you have to take one step at a time and make sure it turns out good.

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's a sense of progress in science, and as we understand more, it just turns out that, somehow, the world evolves with us.

Some of the 'worst' red carpet looks of all time, it turns out, were really just ahead of their time.

The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it stops people even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week.

Oftentimes, when a movie turns into a series, you never retain the creative auspices. You buy the idea, you buy the franchise, and then you bring in a whole new creative team and copy the tone or sensibility.

Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.

A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.

Galileos still exist in science. Sometimes a lone proponent of a new idea turns out to be right.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

I would want to believe that every film I do turns out to be the turning point of my career.

I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

Who would've thought that this little girl in the ghetto in Philly would be playing the first black lesbian superhero on network TV?

Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration.

Even if I don't have a successful film career, at least I am a popular name on TV. I always see the positive side of things. You do feel negative at times, and even humiliated, but if you keep thinking about that, then your life won't move forward.

After doing modeling and films, I was always keen on doing TV. It was in my to-do-list. So when 'Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi' happened, I was more than happy.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

The future of 3D will be defined by TV.

The Internet space will only grow exponentially, and it will affect TV for sure. How much is something that only time will tell.

The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.