Quotes About Progress

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

It motivates me that people rate me so highly and want me to do well, which is a good feeling. Personally, I don't think about milestones or medals, but like to take each competition as it comes and focus on doing my best and becoming better with each competition.

Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

For me, sometimes it's more important to perform well in training and know that I am improving rather than scoring in a game. It's doing the hard work, day in, day out.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

A well begun is half ended.

I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had.

If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one.

If we lose and someone is better than us then we accept it. Handshake after the game and well done and focus on the next game. But if we lose and don't play the style of football we want to play then we know it's our fault and we can do it better.

If you're lucky enough to get into a Premier League or Championship team straight away, well done to you, but I feel really grateful for the experience that I had at the lower end.

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.

I loved being on 'Drag Race' but I say leave well enough alone.

My singing teacher said it would take three years before I could sing well enough to be accepted as a professional. They were wrong. It took me five years.

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.

There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.