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Quotes About Progress

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.
~ Moby
You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
~ Nadia Giosia
We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.
~ Narendra Modi
We always remember the courage of the people of Kargil! We want to make Kargil among India's most developed districts.
~ Narendra Modi
It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience of past few months, I can say that we have removed that gloom from the minds of the people.
~ Narendra Modi
Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.
~ Narendra Modi
We have set out to bring a difference in your lives, to bring smiles back on your face, to fulfil your dreams. We want to make such an India.
~ Narendra Modi
Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.
~ Narendra Modi
There are 18,500 villages in the country where electricity is yet to reach. We want to ensure these villages are electrified within the next 1000 days.
~ Narendra Modi
Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.
~ Neil Young
I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Should a community... be free to enact legislation to say they don't want blacks? Now that's illegal. Fifty years ago it was legal. Is that progress or is that regress?
~ Noam Chomsky
China is working on a similar system for its future carriers. Donald Trump may want to go back to 1920s-level technology, but the rest of the world isn't.
~ P. W. Singer
Hopefully, I want to play a little better than I did today.
~ Padraig Harrington
Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
~ Patricia Briggs
As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.
~ Paul Martin
Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.
~ Paul Theroux
But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.
~ Paula Cole
Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.
~ Peter Jacobson
There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.
~ Peter Temple
After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.
~ Phil Keoghan
Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.
~ Philip Roth