Quotes About Progress

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

Oh yes. You've done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.