Quotes About Progress

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.

People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work.

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Our national challenge is to continue to drive sustained economic growth.

In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too. But it won't happen without sustained pressure on politicians from electorates.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

Long-term sustaining growth is a minimum expectation for us.

Sustaining Peace is happening. But it is the exception - not the norm.

There's no sustenance in the past.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

You're going to have to swallow Vitor Belfort. I'm going to reinvent myself and come back different every time.

When I graduated high school, I was 6-5 and 305. I think I swallowed a magic bean pill.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.

Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

I think it's incredible what I've done. A lot of sweat. But as an innovator, I look back and can't help but go, 'Damn, there's things I could've done better, you know?'