Quotes About Progress

I was also troubled by the apparent over-confidence of a generation that has only known stability, growth and prosperity. I thought our people should understand how vulnerable Singapore was and is, the dangers that beset us, and how we nearly did not make it. Most of all, I hope that they will know that honest and effective government, public order and personal security, economic and social progress did not come about as the natural course of events.

But it is possible to create a society in which everybody is given not equal rewards, but equal opportunities, and where rewards vary not in accordance with the ownership of property, but with the worth of a person's contribution to that society. In other words, society should make it worth people's while to give their best to the country. This is the way to progress.

Political systems that yield inferior economic performance will ultimately be discarded for those that are more productive

There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.

Branches formed and flowed separately for some distance before they merged again with the growing river as it flowed on to today. Which

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

More possibilities and opportunities for women would bring greater expectations and responsibilities—along with a lack of both illusions and stability.

the logic of life is continual change, continual motion, continual evolution.

Science is not philosophers sitting in clouds. It is a human activity, as complex and problematic as any other.

Copernicus, 1996). Julian

A lot of stuff that's on today is coonery and buffoonery, and I know it's making a lot of money ... and breaking records, but we can do better.

'Cause mo better makes it mo better.

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then.

I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

If we don't blow ourselves up, the future will be wonderful.

When you can sit down with a plain sheet of paper in front of you and make some notes, and, little by little, you see it take shape and become a concept for a movie or a TV show. That's a real thrill. You watch it go from notes on a paper to a meeting with writers and directors and actors. I can't think of anything that's more exciting.

If I had stopped asking questions, that's where I would have remained.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season

Years ago I had a 1-iron I could hit 260 yards through a doorway. Now I can hit it through the keyhole

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.