Quotes About Advancement

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

Let some people get rich first.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

Our view is that Quark can make almost everything smart. We'll show you some things that you would never have thought could become smart and communicate.

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

The thing I'm most proud of in my career was to be able to help two organizations go someplace that they've never been before. Not many people get that opportunity to do it with one.

When one good thing happened to you, other good things seemed to follow.

Fall in love with progression for everyday would change your world.

I'm not as good as I was yesterday, buuuut… I'm better than I'm gonna be tom-orrrrr-ow…

what I would like is a raise.

the whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death

This generation has more advanced luxuries and scientific amenities than any other generation, yet we are more spiritually unfulfilled than any generation in history.

character with both progressive motivation and internal changes, congratulations.

Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our own society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law … . They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. —Michael Ledeen, The War Against the Terror Masters, 2002

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement: the beauty myth. It is the modern version of a social reflex that has been in force since the Industrial Revolution. As women released themselves from the feminine mystique of domesticity, the beauty myth took over its lost ground, expanding as it waned to carry on its work of social control.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash against feminism that uses images of female beauty as a political weapon against women's advancement: the beauty myth.

My complaint is not against the work that the churches have done, but the work that they could have done through leadership that was based upon the principle of co-ordinated, co-operative effort which would have carried civilization at least a thousand years ahead of where it is today. It is not yet too late for such leadership.

In 1814 the breeders founded an organization, the title of which was—deep breath—"The Association of Friends, Experts and Supporters of Sheep Breeding for the achievement of a more rapid and more thoroughgoing advancement of this branch of the economy and the manufacturing and commercial aspects of the wool industry that is based upon it." Those who didn't want to lose too much oxygen uttering the full name simply called it the Sheep Breeders' Society.

Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es ésa, capaz de poner un hombre en la luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano?

As life advances and we have to give up the hopes, dreams, and desires of our youth, we acquire a growing sense of being a victim of the world and of other people. There is always someone else to blame for our misfortunes or failures, someone we wish to exclude.

Todo en la vida lo ha hecho alguien antes, al menos lo que vale la pena hacer. El truco está en tratar de hacerlo un poco mejor.

May all the ones ahead be better than those that have already passed.

Basically it's none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we're on the trail of the law of our own growth.