Quotes About Progress

I was just a lanky kid, just tall.

I wasn't always tall. I was shorter so my stepdad had me at point guard so I learned those skills.

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

Some advice I would give myself from the Spirit Squad years - try and get taller.

With the time, as I was growing up and I got taller and my arms were longer, I developed this aggressive style because I think it was better for me, for my style of game.

I'm not going to get any taller, so I might as well get as strong and lean as I possibly can be.

I wasn't the tallest kid when I was little.

I expect a lot from myself but, over time, I've learned to tame that.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

I started in NXT when we were still FCW in Tampa.

I know that 'Tangerine' is getting a lot of attention for pushing the iFilm, but I am really mourning the death of celluloid.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes.

The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data.

At KPMG, we are intentional about leading with inclusion because we believe it strengthens our ability to make a tangible difference for our clients, our people, and society.

We want to see companies making a good faith effort and putting some tangible initiatives behind their pledge for diversity.

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund.

What mattered in the cold war was weight - how big are your missiles? How heavy are your tanks? What matters in globalisation is speed. How fast is your modem? How good are you communications?

Jonsen shuffled rapidly up and down the deck like a shuttle, passing his woof backwards and forwards through the real business of the ship.

I fear, trying to improve human nature.

Hope for what? I don't know. Maybe hope that humanity will always survive civilization.