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Quotes About Advancement

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
~ Willem Dafoe
You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.
~ George Clooney
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.
~ Edward Teller
Innovations, which are the births of time.
~ Francis Bacon
Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
~ John Wilbanks
We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.
~ Michael Dertouzos
We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
~ Monica Edwards
I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.
~ Richard Misrach
If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.
~ Aaron Levie
arrived here he was still only a senator.
~ Marian Keyes
We need to take an evolutionary leap forward
~ Marianne Williamson
Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being—for those who create and master them, at least. Now
~ Marilynne Robinson
After all, education is the key to a higher civilization.
~ Mario Puzo
Smith hace una curiosa diferencia entre el comerciante audaz al que su profesión incita a ser arriesgado y el hacendado tímido, que duda mucho antes de invertir. Por eso, el comerciante es el verdadero pionero del progreso.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Both the steamboat service to Albany and the Erie Canal were destined to be swiftly fleeting marvels, eclipsed by the next idea. Only seven years after the Seneca Chief brought whitefish to New York Harbor, the city's railroad age had begun. The
~ Mark Kurlansky
the four great inventions—paper, compass, gunpowder, and printing
~ Mark Kurlansky
Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That's how it works.
~ Mark Sanborn
Staying the same isn't enough because yesterday's success can easily become tomorrow's mediocrity.
~ Mark Sanborn
Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Cream rises. Excellence does have its rewards.
~ Anthony Bourdain
What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.
~ Anthony Burgess
Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.
~ Anthony Powell
Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However
~ Anthony Powell