“People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveHas BeensTechnologyProgressBrokenAreasArtificial IntelligenceArtificialRoboticsNanotechnology Author:Peter Thiel
“In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, I used to call my own repairman. But as marriages progress, you surrender areas of your own competence, often without even knowing it.” UsedMy OwnPayRolesKnowingProgressHusbandAreasBillsUnionsSurrenderTraditionalMy HusbandCompetence Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.” YearsFirstsMadeStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesProgressMonthsPeriodsPercentFirst TimeEuropeAreasTradeCentsLast YearAsiaCorrespondingForeign Trade Author:Ramon Magsaysay
“Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.” MayImportantSeemsEvilStrongProgressBuildingBrokenPerspectiveEternalAreasMeaningfulDay To DayCordsLove AlwaysActs Of Service Author:Marvin J. Ashton
“Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.” PeopleTryingFeelingsSpiritThreeChallengesTechnologyProgressEconomicYouthInspireAreasAncientIsraelDuesPartnersEnterpriseImmigrantsExileThree ThingsIsraeliHomelandScience And TechnologyDiasporaPioneeringResurgencePioneering Spirit Author:David Ben-Gurion
“All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.” PeopleMadeLastsProcessProgressCenturyProduceCoupleAreasEconomicsLaborWorkersPermanentProductiveGoodsTemporaryFewerUnemploymentShifting Author:Milton Friedman
“As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill.” ProblemProgressSkillsAreasAbstractReasoningTherapistsTherapeutic Author:Virgil Miller Newton
“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.” MayMadeCountryPoliticalStrongSocialPerfectRightsProgressEconomicSeriousAreasEnormousCardsInstanceReportsImplementationLagPolitical RightsReport Cards Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.” KnowsLongProgressPeriodsAreas Author:Eric Kandel
“I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.” HumansChildrenRaceProgressAreasEarsGratefulHuman RaceInfectionAntibiotics Author:David Bowie
“Although the United States has made tremendous progress cleaning up its water by removing billions of pounds of pollutants and doubling the number of waterways safe for fishing and swimming, a majority of Americans live within 10 miles of a polluted lake, river, stream or coastal area.” MadeStatesWaterUnitedNumbersUnited StatesProgressSafeAreasRiversMajorityEnvironmentalBillionsMilesStreamsLakesFishingPoundsSwimmingCleaningCleaning UpCoastal Author:Carol Browner
“Some land surveyors delve into land development advocacy, working with local government on behalf of clients in order to facilitate progress on a project. Others stick to strictly surveying. The approach depends on the individual firm and the needs of the local area.” NeedsGovernmentOrderIndividualProgressLandDependsDevelopmentProjectsApproachAreasSticksLocalsFirmClientsBehalfAdvocacyFacilitateLocal GovernmentSurveyorsLand Surveyor Author:Mark Mason
“Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.” WayTryingProgressJourneyAreasBlockedMy JourneyWork In Progress Author:Lauren Bowles
“You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.” KnowsKindLittlesHardFormRealizingProgressAirAreasConnectionsVulnerableCollectionsTouchedNew ThingsButtons Author:Saul Williams
“You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where there has been progress and there has been change.” Has BeensTwoDifferentPresidentTermProgressAreasUnfinishedUnfinished Business Author:Kellyanne Conway
“If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So not only the politicians but also business, the wider civil society, and the trade union movement all have a contribution to make, whether it is at national or at international level.” IfsWantEnergyProcessLevelsProgressMovementKeysPoliticianAreasTradeUnionsInternationalContributionAppropriateCivil SocietyTrade UnionsStakeholder Author:Mary Robinson
“In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and progress. They are fighting for their lands and their livelihoods, refusing to be looted so that someone somewhere far away may "progress" at their cost.” PeopleMayHas BeensCultureFightingCompanyMillionsProgressLandHugeBattleCostAreasIndiaWesternNotionDrivenForestsConsumersFar AwayInfrastructureCivilisationLivelihoodMiningDamsRural AreasConsumer Culture Author:Arundhati Roy
“There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There are other areas - so far, in fact, one area only [physics] - in which we have demonstrated the capacity for true scientific progress.” MindHumansDoneFactsProgressHugeAreasCapacityPhysicsHuman MindIncapableScientific Progress Author:Noam Chomsky
“Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.” ThinkingIdeasCareProgressAreasOppositesYeahHealth CareNew Ideas Author:Barack Obama
“There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.” PeopleHas BeensStillsSchoolProgressTeachingFieldsMaterialsAreasInnovationTextbooksCurriculumRevisionElementary School Author:Jonathan Kozol
“Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.” MovingProgressAreasDefeatTalibanClearing Author:Colin Powell
“The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.” PeopleLittlesMadeIdeasWholeSchoolBitsProgressAreasRateUniversityPopulationExcitementRapidsFrontiersAdvancing Book:A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes