Quotes About Progress

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.

Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.

Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.

I have been wanting to do a substantial role for quite sometime.

I'm eagerly looking forward to substantial roles from Kollywood filmmakers.

If something nice comes my way, I will take it up. It has to be something substantial. I am not saying that I have to do films like 'The Dirty Picture' or 'Kahaani.' It could be something commercial as well.

Landing substantial and author-backed roles is indeed very gratifying.

I feel like every single fight, the difference in my game, the difference that you see in Greg Hardy, the fighter, has been substantial.

We need to go after cancer, diabetes, climate change, the substantive problems of the world that, if were solved, would create immense wealth and opportunity that would cascade across countries.

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.

I am proud of the advances we have made in New York where we have continued a legacy of substantive HIV/AIDS policy, but we must continue the fight to end the epidemic and ensure an AIDS-free generation.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way is considered the best practice and how it's traditionally been done, innovation comes by and says 'Let's try a different approach.' It doesn't need to be big or company-wide - it could be a single thing.

Aside from birthing me my first grey hairs and keeping me up at night more times than I'd like to count, 'The Subtle Art' taught me a lot about the nature of work. And a lot of that had to do with how my perception of the work itself evolved over the course of writing the book.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

The amount of subtle and beautiful physics that's necessary to make a smartphone work is enormous.

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that was dependent on the automobile.

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.