Quotes About Progress

Sequels are generally done in a rush. They're done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second time, you don't. Your expectations are different, and your motivations are different.

The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey.

Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.

Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.

Senator Obama and I had been on the same side of many fights, and we had worked together on the issue that is most urgent to me - comprehensive immigration reform.

My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.

I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.