Quotes About Progress

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

Food is never static; culture is never static.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.

You're never static as a performer. You either get better or you get worse. As I see it, you have an equal chance at either.

Static strikers do not exist anymore.

A railway station is something that can generate a city.

We certainly would not be here, living and working on the International Space Station without the commitment and dedication of all the folks who worked the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Programs as well as the Russian Space Program.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions.

The first significant work I did was a railway station in Zurich called Stadelhofen.