Quotes About Progress

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

If the computer-guided robots turn out to be our superiors in every respect, then will they not find that they can run the world better without the need of us at all? Humanity itself will then have become obsolete.

I'm going to learn from every obstacle.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.

A lot of people love to throw the social climber thing at people who are on the rise, but it's really just God moving all the people that are distractions, all the obstacles, out of the way for me to achieve what I'm destined to achieve.

Rules are simply obstacles to be jumped, like in a horse race: higher and higher every time.

Every time you try to do something different, you have to expect obstacles.

It's obvious that any new show comes with its share of blunders, misfires, and bad choices.

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

Genomics is a new idea. Like the PC, it's not obvious at first that anyone would want one. It's like, 'Hey, we've already got one genome, why do we need more?'

If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.

Often, when we support the 'right' causes and candidates, we fail to recognize that with progress comes sacrifice. That sacrifice might mean that you are no longer the obvious choice for the job. Your job security may no longer be a given.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

From the moment those images of Buzz and Neil arrived on the world's television sets, our human space program has been lost - for a blatantly simple and obvious reason - after the first giant leap to take that first small step, there was no plan for the next one, because there was no second question to be answered.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

I'm never really just satisfied with where I'm at. I always just want to get better, improve more, learn as much as I can because obviously I have a lot to learn and a lot to get better at so it's all about improvement to me.

When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and I decided to just embrace that, roll with it, and turn it into something funny.

Obviously going from an electrician to doing what I do now, the money is great. I can go on holidays now and do different things.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.