Quotes About Progress

If we're going to continue making advances up there in space, then we have an obligation to do the same down here on Earth.

As a professional, you have an obligation to rehabilitate yourself as fast as you can.

If you're going to accomplish all those great things out in space, all that progress, then you have an obligation to do some considerable good here on Earth, like making sure you conquer childhood cancer along the way.

When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.

Earlier, when actors aged, they were never, ever to be seen again; but times have changed for the better. Now you don't have to go into oblivion just because you've crossed 40.

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

I don't obsess over mistakes, because they do happen, so I just keep working and training hard. I just keep helping the team, which is key.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

Of course every player wants to go from good to better, but one should not be obsessed with it.

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

I can be rather obsessive - especially when it comes to breaking through to the next level as an actor.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

The idea of the damsel in distress is fast becoming obsolete.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.