Anna Olson Quotes

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

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• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Strong
  • Progress

• I'm a work in progress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Progress

• Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Work
  • May
  • Simple

• I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Roots
  • Blues
  • Stick

• China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Work
  • Science
  • Energy

• They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Up
  • World
  • Progress

• If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Indians

• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lost
  • Suffering
  • Progress

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• Every progress has its bill of costs and only those who pay for it will have that progress.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Progress

• Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Progress

• Being recognized by The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a testament to Colliers International and the progress we have made as part of a global community. I feel extremely fortunate to be surrounded by professionals whose overriding mission is to accelerate the success of our clients, colleagues, and friends around the world.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • World
  • Friends
  • Success

• How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?

  

  Bernice King
  • May
  • Struggle
  • Progress

• The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

  

  David Gross
  • History
  • True
  • Science

• I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Future

• I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Progress
  • Africa
  • Poor countries

• Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at you on even a slow-ish news day, but certain things just tend to stick out. Certain stories just seem to have an odd sort of electricity. It does get tricky when you're pitching an image that won't hit the newsstands for another week. Not only can other, bigger stories break in the mean time, but other daily cartoonists, can also come up with the same idea - this is the most depressing thing - and put it out there so yours looks old by the time it's published.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Stories
  • Electricity
  • Stick

• Allowing an election to happen now only serves the ends of people who don't want to see progress made under the Kyoto Protocol, so you have to say it's unfortunate that we've come to this.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Progress
  • Election
  • Unfortunate

• No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • Small

• The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Language
  • Force
  • Clans

• Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

  

  Anna Olson
  • Progress
  • Stick
  • Neck