“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
“Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.” MayPlayShowsRolesProgressHabitObstaclesTendenciesUnfortunateImitation Author:African Spir
“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.” Has BeensRealWholeMovingPoliticalForceDealsRolesEconomyTakenGrowingProgressEconomicMiracleDemocraticChinaRussiaPolitical SystemsDemocratic SocietyEconomic Progress Author:Milton Friedman
“Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.” MeanHas BeensMadeHumanityGoalRolesTechnologyClearProgressAchieveMercyInstrumentsProfessionStatementsAbandonedTechnologicalMultiplyingTechnological Progress Author:Stanislaw Lem
“Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.” LongDoeGovernmentPowerfulRolesProgressCenturyDebateAll TimeSettlingOur TimeRole Of Government Author:Barack Obama
“Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.” YearsWellsDoeTwoPlayHelpingBigsQualityRolesFiveProgressAchieveFootballSixConstantSevenTwo YearsSeven YearsLife Time Author:Berti Vogts
“India's role is not to interfere in what Nepal does but to support Nepal in their development. Nepal should scale new heights of progress.” ShouldDoePoliticsRolesSupportProgressDevelopmentIndiaScalesHeightInterfereNepal Author:Narendra Modi
“Usually being a young actor, you've got to go through certain levels of hierarchy, going through bit parts and extra roles and then kind of progressing up the food chain and having the size of your roles grow in that sense.” KindYoungCertainActorsGrowsBitsLevelsRolesProgressSizeChainsExtrasHierarchyYoung ActorsFood Chain Author:James Frecheville
“Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.” PeopleThinkingBelievePlayRolesProgressPossibilityBigger Book:Six Thinking Hats Source: Six Thinking Hats
“That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.” ShouldYearsWellsEnoughGovernmentEnergyCompanyRolesProgressUniqueRewardsFantasticNew Start Author:Bill Gates
“On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society.” PlayFoundSocialSidesRolesProgressCreatingWindowEntrepreneurCriticalGiantsExtensionsSocial Change Author:Lewis Schiff
“We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.” MadeStillsCareAbleCompanyStepsRolesMillionsStruggleProgressTenMajorsHealthcareEmployedEmployersProvisionAffordableSteps ForwardInsurance CompaniesAffordable Care ActHealth Insurance Companies Author:Hillary Clinton