Quotes About Progress

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.

If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?

It is dangerous to sit on your laurels, but a lot of the time you only have to add one or two people to the fringes of a winning team to improve it.

The approach of recognizing marriage between two people, without limitations, responds to a problem of eliminating all types of discrimination in society.

Chemistry is not built in one practice or two weeks even. It comes over time.

I try to get through a book every two weeks.

Usually I do a job, and, like, two weeks later, it disappears and is replaced with something else, but 'Get Out' kept growing and growing and growing, and it keeps taking me to rooms I could never get in before.

We do the best we can and the great thing about this sport is every two weeks you know whether it is good enough or not.

I spoke to the Sporting Chance clinic and I was seeing a guy in London every one or two weeks for an hour-long meeting about my gambling.

Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.

If you represent our country, it should represent us. It's supposed to be a two-way thing, but we live and we learn, and it's getting better.

We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.

Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'