My Breakthrough Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

Mary J. Blige

#4. The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

Faith Hill

#5. My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50 ... I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

Edvard Munch

#6. 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

#7. Every time I've crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project.

Anupam Kher

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

Terrell Owens

#12. By letting go of misguided beliefs, love and compassion can break through.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#13. Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.

Frances Beinecke

#14. 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

#15. Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!

T. B. Joshua

#16. 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

#17. Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly
so every stretch won't feel like your first.

Gina Greenlee

#18. You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

Joyce Meyer

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

Tony Evans

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

Gyan Nagpal

#26. 'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.

Natsuo Kirino

#27. When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.

Jason Mraz

#28. My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

Avi Rubin

#29. All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has ...

Kanye West

#30. In my experience, in this industry, the things that have been breakthrough have all been about connecting human beings to each other, communicating with each other.

Renee James

#31. Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.

Paul Hawken

#32. My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Peter Straub

#33. Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

John C. Maxwell

#34. I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

Jonathan Lethem

#35. The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

Eddie Van Halen

#36. It's my view that solar energy may be the ultimate solution for energy for most of the world. I believe, based on what little I know about it, that there is a possibility of a breakthrough.

Donald Bren

#37. 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

#38. A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.

Robert Bateman

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.

Richard Hamming

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

James D. Watson

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Hope for breakthrough belongs only to the persistent.

Sunday Adelaja

#54. You will find solution, if you have a passionate, strong desire to breakthrough

Sunday Adelaja

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.

Maya Angelou

#60. 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

#61. There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Jay Samit

#62. 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

#63. In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

Nicholas D. Kristof

#64. Well, good for you, a breakthrough. The Neanderthals will be pleased to have their leader back.

Kate Stewart

#65. 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

#66. I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.

Mike Evans

#67. Becoming a good steward is more important than you getting your own breakthrough.

Sunday Adelaja

#68. 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

#69. Lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.

James C. Collins

#70. Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

Frans Johansson

#71. The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

Bill Gates

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. I couldn't afford therapy, so I just watched 'Frasier.' Season 4 was a breakthrough.

Cristela Alonzo

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough ... IF you understand God's grace

Carl Lentz

#84. Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.

Pearl Zhu