Quotes About Progress

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave the home; that young Afghan women today are not only accessing an education but are able to meet young people from around the world and cheer on a robot of their own making is something beautiful.

When the Taliban was ruling Afghanistan, women were not allowed to go to school, to work, or even leave the house without a male chaperone. The greatest moment was when that ended.

I don't talk about the past.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

It is easy to talk about development. However, it entails painstaking efforts to actually make it happen.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.

Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.

On one hand, I think it's very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it's not talked about, then we won't progress. What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

We talked with PSG, but quickly, I knew that it wasn't where I wanted to go. In France, for me, it was only Lyon. PSG could have enabled me to make progress because they have great players, but I wanted to experience another league.

The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk.

I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud when Chicago recently made computer science mandatory as a requirement for graduation. To see this elevate to the level of a bigger conversation is progress.

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were.

Since SpaceX's very beginnings, they have talked about recovering and reusing at least the first stages of their rockets.

We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.

We are very supportive of the economic reforms that the Chinese government have talked about.