Quotes About Progress

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

I'm making it up as I go along, like everyone else. There probably are some actors who are quite methodical or at least take their time about what particular footholds to find on the rocks next. There are always choices, even when you're not getting seen, for how to spend your time. It's only after 10 years that I got any kind of traction at all.

I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.

I didn't have any fixed goals when I joined the film industry. I don't particularly feel 'successful,' but I am grateful that my career is going well.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.

It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.

I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

The fact is, Canada needs investment, particularly in infrastructure.

We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns.

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

Most of our technology issues aren't partisan.

At certain moments, both the WEEE Act and the First Step Act appeared doomed to dead end in partisan gridlock and procedural hurdles.

Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.

I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

Partition happened in my life but do you think I should be living in partition? I have seen it but as India has moved further and as a generation has moved further I am also moving further.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.