Quotes About Advancement

but you know the more one does the more one can do.

Black illiteracy decreased to 16.4 percent in 1930, from 45 percent in 1900. Fewer black babies died at birth—by half. Black life expectancy was rising. Most important, blacks were able to find work at about the same rates whites did. Data from the 1930 census would show black unemployment nationally standing slightly below white unemployment.

The twentieth century contributed skyscrapers and typewriters and automobiles and telephones to the world. Solid, workable objects. Every innovation of the twenty-first century could be erased by a power failure.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

Learning isn't a way of reaching one's potential but rather a way of developing it. We

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

I believe that those in the city must be left to work out their own destiny," the hist-techneer said at last. "In a manner of thinking that choice is now a retreat. They wish life to remain as it always has been. But that is just what life never does. It goes up—one advances—or it goes down—one retreats. And if one tried to stand still—that is retreat.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

Personal growth must sometimes be measured by distance travelled rather than by current position

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was.

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Kaizen" is a Japanese term that captures the concept of continuously making many small improvements.

We have to improve on a weekly basis, on a game-to-game basis.

The first cell phone model weighed over one kilo, and you could only talk for 20 minutes before the battery ran out. Which is just as well because you would not be able to hold it up for much longer.

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

I've done it in kickboxing, I've done it in boxing. After you clean out a division, you move up in weight.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

As an actor I have always welcomed the opportunity to evolve.

To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

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