Quotes About Progress

I wanted to become a well-rounded player.

As your president, I care too much about this nation to let anyone stand in the way of our people's wellbeing.

Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing.

The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.

The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

What's important is Welsh football and that it progresses.

The career I have had should warrant me getting a job. I've done all the badges. I'm doing my coaching badges with the Welsh FA.

I have an American trainer - a bubbly Californian. I tell her, 'Welsh women don't run. We're congenitally incapable.' But she's got me up to five kilometers.

We don't want Welsh rugby to be seen as healthy or upbeat. If we think that, we could become complacent or stagnate.

Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.

Frederick Jackson Turner

In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.

Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.

Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.