Top 100 Breakthrough Quotes
#1. The Good Friday Agreement was an incredible breakthrough. But it's my view that the Hillsborough Agreement could see politics in the north come of age, and see us all move forwards on the basis of equality and partnership.
Martin McGuinness
#2. Well, good for you, a breakthrough. The Neanderthals will be pleased to have their leader back.
Kate Stewart
#3. In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!
Nicholas D. Kristof
#4. The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.
Andrew Pettegree
#5. There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
Jay Samit
#6. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for building learning organizations.
Peter M. Senge
#7. Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
Maya Angelou
#8. I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.
Hilary Swank
#9. I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
Harold Brodkey
#10. This is a breakthrough to science! How can I destroy it? It is beautiful! I have never encountered an unequally conjoined twin that was alive!"
Dr. Lisa Sen The Malevolent Twin
Mary Sage Nguyen
#11. What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough ...
Brian D. McLaren
#12. You will find solution, if you have a passionate, strong desire to breakthrough
Sunday Adelaja
#13. Hope for breakthrough belongs only to the persistent.
Sunday Adelaja
#14. Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
James D. Watson
#15. Stand up for what's right for you when the time's right. Wake up to grab it as soon as possible. Shake up when you wake up; never miss opportunities that could clearly set you up for a breakthrough!
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another.
Pal Benko
#17. Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
James D. Watson
#18. In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.
K. Eric Drexler
#19. Often the thing that brings you the most pain is the very thing that will lead you to the most gain and your breakthrough.
Jeanette Coron
#20. Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide ...
Joan Ryan
#21. Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#22. What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough ... IF you understand God's grace
Carl Lentz
#23. Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.
Eugene Schwartz
#24. And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through inner transformation. This has to be the last breakthrough of our evolution, which is a living process.
Nirmala Srivastava
#25. I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.
Cristela Alonzo
#26. Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.
Thomas Keating
#27. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.
Lynn Jones
#28. I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.
James Franco
#29. I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.
Mike Evans
#30. The most exciting breakthrough of the twenty-first century will occur not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human," said the futurist John Naisbitt.
Keith Ferrazzi
#31. The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.
Elon Musk
#32. At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.
Idowu Koyenikan
#33. My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
Terry Brooks
#34. When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
Carol Burnett
#35. The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
Bill Gates
#36. Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.
Frans Johansson
#37. Lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.
James C. Collins
#38. Dr. Chuck "Chuckles" Gigglebrooks, lead researcher at the National Association of Laughter Studies, had this conclusion to draw about why people laugh: "It's fun!" I only hope it didn't take a government grant to achieve this scientific breakthrough.
Jarod Kintz
#39. Becoming a good steward is more important than you getting your own breakthrough.
Sunday Adelaja
#40. Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.
Aliko Dangote
#41. I see 'Hansel and Gretel' as a breakthrough book for me, and one of the reasons is because I started to apply meaning to the hidden details.
Anthony Browne
#42. Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other
Gyan Nagpal
#43. Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.
Lesley M.M. Blume
#44. I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album ... so I took it as a sign to leave.
Graham Coxon
#45. Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
Yves Behar
#46. Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.
Tony Evans
#47. I think that the Apocalypse is going to be in this new way of thinking. Somewhere between now and 2020, there has got to be a break though. Not just in science, we've done that, but a breakthrough in the human mind.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#48. Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug, breakthrough surgical procedure or new organ transplant. What rubbish.
Andrew Saul
#49. Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.
Jason Mraz
#50. You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!
Joyce Meyer
#51. Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly
so every stretch won't feel like your first.
Gina Greenlee
#52. To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.
Dennis Muren
#53. Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!
T. B. Joshua
#54. You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
Sam Altman
#55. Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
Frances Beinecke
#57. Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.
Terrell Owens
#58. Disassociation. It is a word I have heard before but never in reference to that mind trick I had used to cope. That trick isn't a figment of my imagination. It was real. It had a name. And if the coping mechanism was real, it means what I have experienced was real too.
Elizabeth Esther
#59. Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming.
Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
to develop can be produced in a matter of days.
Tim O'Reilly
#60. Every time I've crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project.
Anupam Kher
#61. We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."
Bill Gates
#62. If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.
Mark Zuckerberg
#63. When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.
Renee James
#64. The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.
Richard Hamming
#65. I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system..
Mariah Carey
#66. Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
Thomas R. Cech
#67. I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'.
Ronald Graham
#68. Through the messages of miracles and breakthrough,people are now more like slaves than human beings.
Sunday Adelaja
#69. I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
J.K. Rowling
#70. While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.
John Cleese
#71. We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.
James Nesbitt
#72. Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration.
Brian Houston
#73. E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.
Nora Ephron
#74. Don't let anyone or anything drown out that still small voice that says, "You were made for more.
Kirstin Leigh
#75. We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
Harold S. Kushner
#76. From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.
Robin Wright
#77. Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach.
Charles F. Glassman
#78. It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.
Michael Moritz
#79. When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
Richard P. Feynman
#80. I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment
Stedman Graham
#81. I don't think there is anything unusual about my struggle. It's a very typical struggle where you meet bad people, and then you meet good people, and then you finally have a breakthrough.
Kangana Ranaut
#83. If you live your life by fear, you will never fully know freedom or breakthrough.
J.D. Fisher
#84. Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.
Van Jones
#85. If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.
Sylvester Stallone
#86. She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.
Lisa Jewell
#87. The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
Peter Singer
#88. Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.
Cornel West
#89. You are one belief away from breakthrough. It's a choice, so choose the next right thing, you can do it!
Joshua Stannard
#90. Focus on miracles or breakthrough makes a man to hope that he could reap where he has not sown.
Sunday Adelaja
#91. Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.
Roshan Sharma
#92. The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
Peter Diamandis
#93. Not being "okay," is a gift. And inside that gift, is the strength to change and the courage to begin again.
Kirstin Leigh
#94. Fentanyl is incredibly potent, approximately 80-100 times stronger than morphine and much more than heroin. Also known by the brand names Sublimaze, Duragesic, Actiq and others, fentanyl is commonly used to treat breakthrough pain in conjunction with surgical procedures.
Taite Adams
#95. Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.
Bill Johnson
#96. At first, students tend to freeze at the first effort. The breakthrough comes when they realize that they can make it better - can identify what their purposes were and realize better ways to achieve those purposes.
M.H. Abrams
#97. For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.
Conan O'Brien
#98. A writer's breakthrough is a breakdown with a smile.
A.D. Posey
#99. The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
Bill Gates
#100. Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.
Marc Andreessen
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