Quotes About Progress

I just want to work with legislative council members from across the political spectrum to get things done.

Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.

We don't live in a primitive society any more. Many of us are lucky enough to be educated. We also realize that gender and sexuality is a spectrum.

Gender is great, and Im happy for anybody to celebrate wherever they are on the gender spectrum. Its got amazingly much easier in my lifetime.

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

When I did my first media interviews after I was announced as a team principal, the first question was, what qualifies you for the job? The second question was, did your husband place you in the role? And the third was, how are you going to do your job as a mother? I was speechless to think that we were not making any progress.

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

In business, speed is everything.

Every organization can move at a different speed.