Famous Quotes & Sayings

John O. Brennan

Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.

Since our first report 20 years ago, we've seen historic scientific advances and dramatic changes in market conditions combine to produce a rapidly maturing industry. Companies from around the globe are pioneering new technologies, platforms, industry segments, and business models.

Most surgeons will see and do more here in four months than they will in the rest of their career. A lot of advances in medicine can come out of wars.

Many photographers struggle with pulling all the pieces together to get the most out of digital technology, especially after taking the shot. While advances in image sensors, lenses, and photo printers are exciting, many of the biggest productivity and business improvements are coming from editing, color management, workflow, photo management, and collaboration.

Several hundred hours were spent in the greenhouses where we had to shake the plants and record the various degrees of shattering. Even with all the advances in technology, a careful firsthand observation proves to be essential for biological research.

Setting realistic goals and having a well-thought-out plan is important. Generic competition in any given market is inevitable. Start your next- generation drug development early -- just after product launch -- and be ready to show patients that the benefits gained from the scientific advances of a next-generation drug outweigh the savings that come from switching to generics.

Boris Berezovsky

So far, there has been no specific advances in the talks.

S. Jay Olshansky

Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.

Shashi Tharoor

The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.

Abraham Lincoln

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

Elizabeth Warren

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.

Ban Ki-moon

The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

Charles M. Blow

Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself: When you think of America, do you see a country struggling to be maintained or one striving to be made better?

Lael Brainard

The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.

Kary Mullis

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

Tim Hunt

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

We definitely got some offers from labels and we talked to a lot of people. They were offering advances and a lot of support and it was definitely an option, but we'd already come pretty far on our own.

Rowan Atkinson

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

There are a tremendous amount of investors who are very happy with the floor system, ... That is not to say that over years advances in technology and efficiency won't change that. My perception is that the change will be glacial, not abrupt.

Kenneth R. Miller

Modern science developed in the context of western religious thought, was nurtured in universities first established for religious reasons, and owes some of its greatest discoveries and advances to scientists who themselves were deeply religious.

The question is whether the public health advances and the money involved is enough for Wisconsin to say that it's time now to move past litigation and focus on cessation,

Bill Gates

The one top problem we've got in hardware advances is getting everybody connected at high speeds...Most people even five years from now will probably still be connected through the phone line,

Tom Wujec

As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and more connected to the world. And what I'd like to argue is that that's not necessarily the case, as 'progress' is simply a word for change, and with change you gain something, but you also lose something.

I think we've made a lot of advances due to our trips to Washington.

I think what we've seen from the hurricanes is the nation needs to diversify. We do have the technological advances and the drive to do this in an environmentally safe and correct manner, and we're just not developing like we should be.

Arlen Specter

We've got the potential for enormous advances in medical science, and we should utilize them,

While it's true that capacity use rates are very low, it's also true that much of that capacity has been rendered obsolete by technological advances and that replacement of capital is faster than it used to be. So a lot of businesses may feel they have little choice but to spend, if they want to preserve their competitive edge.

Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.

David Knopfler

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

This really is the first credible evidence of a biological basis for chronic fatigue syndrome. It reflects the remarkable confluence of a number of scientific advances that are coming to bear on a problem of great importance to many people in the U.S. It's an important step forward in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome research.