Quotes About Progress

I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.

I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.

Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.

The move to a zero-carbon future is unstoppable.

People change. They get successful and change. They get unsuccessful and change.

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.

If it wasn't for so many brave people standing up, speaking out, and fighting for equal rights, we might not have all of the luxuries of freedom that we have today. So many unsung people fought for us to be able to live together in harmony no matter how different we are from one another.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.

In the global marketplace, women remain the most untapped natural resource.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

I've found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who has already peaked.

In my mind, women's basketball players are an untapped resource.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.