Quotes About Advancement

Someday computers will make us all obsolete. (1975)

they are glad that we started as we did, and built ourselves up year by year, by a slow and natural process of growth.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

At present society is composed, not so much of men and women, as of the raw material of men and women, which it will be the office of a higher civilization to work up into the forms of a truer manhood and womanhood.

Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.

I was always of the opinion that progress made things easier. But it don't look that way to me. If anything, things seem more complicated. Is that the whole idea of progress - to complicate matters?

You have to start somewhere,' he said. 'You climb the top of the first tiny hill and from there you see the next hill.

Progress eventually finds a way, especially when the difference between what is being considered and what exists is so, so massive and obvious.

new motto: get big fast

You move forward in life. You may give the old you a nod every once in a while, but the old you is gone and not coming back. That was often a good thing.

And I thought to myself, well, we're making a step - it's just a baby-step, but it's a step

Enslavement could not have existed and certainly could not have persisted without medical science. However, physicians were also dependent upon slavery, both for economic security and for the enslaved "clinical material" that fed the American medical research and medical training that bolstered physicians' professional advancement.

the untold billions who led the bad life as mankind slowly built up the good life for you to lead. Do you ever think of all the people who suffered and died in misery and superstition while civilization was clicking forward one more slow notch?

What has gone forward can't go back to where it came from.

EVERY MAJOR INDUSTRY WAS once a growth industry.

Despite the crapehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.

On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

WWE is growing every day, every week, and every month.

When we began, we used chatrooms on AOL and Yahoo! and nowadays, we have dozens and dozens of ways to communicate. Technology has improved - for everything from the cameras to the microphones. It's a whole 'nother playing field now.

To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.

Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

Science grows like a weed every year.