Quotes About Progress

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.

To continue playing late into your twenties in the same style that you once played as a teenager is not possible.

I'm 26, and I'm finally getting to play characters in their early twenties.

I don't exactly know the moment that I was a millionaire but it was in my twenties.

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.