Quotes About Progress

Just trying to get better and pick my spots, know when to pass, know when to shoot and I think I've gotten a little bit better at that.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not exist before. Airbnb, for example, could not have existed before the Internet.

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.

You have to be able to bring technology to the forefront and allow economic opportunity to be more equally spread.

We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

By the time 'Abdullah' released, I had already been offered three roles. Word about me just spread. I started getting calls directly from producers and directors.

The economic impact of new development spreads throughout a community. New facilities bring new jobs, providing good, family-supporting salaries.

As minorities and other immigrant groups become more important to our economy, the inner city is a crucible that gives us an early look at phenomena that are going to be spreading more broadly in the economy over time.

As we've seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities - and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

I think that for all of the dangers of technology spreading, I think it is more dangerous in some ways that it doesn't. My simple reason for that is we've got 7 billion people on the planet, and we have these very serious problems, and I think we don't know who's going to have the answers to the problems that are coming around the bend.

I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

It's a cool feeling to see how far my music has been spreading.

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

When I was introduced to balls, it was only in New York, now it's spreading everywhere. I couldn't be happier.

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

It is no coincidence that in the wake of the Arab Spring, investment in youth-related initiatives, especially related to employment, has increased sharply.