Quotes About Breakthroughs

#1. We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

Michael Steele

#2. Taking a break can lead to breakthroughs.

Russell Eric Dobda

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

Jay Samit

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

Maya Angelou

#5. I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.

Tony Robbins

#6. On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.

Maria Semple

#7. We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

Steven Johnson

#8. If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough - they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.

Donald A. Norman

#9. The fact that Edison was a supporter of the mechanical breakthroughs in the physical world doesn't mean he wasn't equally entranced by the metaphysical.

Jodi Picoult

#10. The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

Bill Johnson

#11. The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and committed. You will encounter the urge to quit many times. Get over it. Quitting is not an option; always be prepared to give it one more day.

Matthew Barnett

#12. There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Mary J. Blige

#13. We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

Robert Lanza

#14. Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

Rosalia De Castro

#15. When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

Harold E. Varmus

#16. God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

Joyce Meyer

#17. Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.

Anton Zeilinger

#18. One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

George R R Martin

#19. a lot of so-called health breakthroughs are not nearly as impressive as their marketing makes them appear. While it may be good business to spin the numbers to increase sales, it isn't good science. One

T. Colin Campbell

#20. Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

Lynda Obst

#21. The most important thing to do is to take risks. The risks are where breakthroughs happen, and big shifts take you to new places and create opportunities. They can be really scary and intimidating, but that means it is taking you out of your comfort zone. All designers look at life through a

Sophia Amoruso

#22. The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

Yehuda Berg

#23. We're always doing a lot of user studies on health and safety. We take it super seriously. But if you look back at the history of most new big technology breakthroughs, there is some element of controversy around what impact is it going to have.

Brendan Iribe

#24. We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs ... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

William J. Perry

#25. The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.

Rand Paul

#26. Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Daniel H. Pink

#27. If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Peter Diamandis

#28. The big moments are the tiny moments. The breakthroughs are often silent, and they happen in the most unassuming places.

Jeff Goins

#29. Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.

Tony Robbins

#30. From the theft of confidential cables to 21st-century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

Hillary Clinton

#31. When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.

Marianne Williamson

#32. Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such heroes, by men and women who will stand for the result while it is only a possibility - people who will act to make possibility real.

Werner Erhard

#33. Breakthroughs come when people learn how to take the time to stop and examine their assumptions.

Peter M. Senge

#34. To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour.

Ted Trainer

#35. What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

Camille Paglia

#36. One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

Seth Godin

#37. In a world where routine production is footloose ... competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

Robert Reich

#38. Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.

Mitch Kapor

#39. Annie Jump Cannon (left) and Henrietta Leavitt, whose unsung labours and incisive deductions made Hubble's breakthroughs possible.

Bill Bryson

#40. Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. (121)

Gail Giles

#41. One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Alastair Reynolds

#42. Breakthroughs arise when someone can combine many ideas together. Think broadly, not deeply.

Joshua Krook

#43. One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

Brian Eno

#44. The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.

Anthony Fauci

#45. Of all the research I've read about breakthroughs in mental illness, this message resonates most loudly. We need one another to lead healthy lives, and when faced with the prospect of illness, be it mental or physical, we need to believe others can help us through to the other side.

Sheila Hamilton

#46. There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#47. How do you engineer breakthroughs?

Anonymous

#48. There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

Joyce Meyer

#49. The knowledge of what we are ignorant of seems to expand faster than our catalogue of breakthroughs.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#50. Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

R.D. Laing

#51. And I'm going to work as hard as I can ... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

Jim Valvano

#52. Sometimes the greatest scientific breakthroughs happen because someone ignores the prevailing pessimism.

Nessa Carey

#53. All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.

Tony Robbins

#54. Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#55. The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this way also.) Dr. Kowan ... was ... age 70 ...

G. Edward Griffin

#56. sustained exponential improvement in most aspects of computing, extraordinarily large amounts of digitized information, and recombinant innovation. These three forces are yielding breakthroughs that convert science fiction into everyday reality,

Anonymous

#57. Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Pat Riley

#58. The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

John Naisbitt

#59. Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

Walter Bradford Cannon

#60. A good scientist (DT quoted Einstein) will acknowledge that more than 50% of scientific breakthroughs are reached through post-rationalised ideas, not through sequential logic.

Rory Sutherland

#61. It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

Roger Wicker

#62. Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.

Jenny McCarthy

#63. Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.

Idowu Koyenikan

#64. Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#65. My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

Bill Gates

#66. I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

Frederick Lenz

#67. I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.

Michael Sandel

#68. Extraordinary breakthroughs are only ordinary breaks that were grabbed, explored, improved, maximized and harnessed to a profitable maximum

Ikechukwu Joseph

#69. I don't see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something new that will help us go to the moons of Saturn okay and so we ought to use that to breed new breakthroughs and to test new breakthroughs and to fund it.

Burt Rutan

#70. There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Helen Frankenthaler

#71. How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.

Donald A. Norman

#72. Whatever the losses in warmth and comfort, the gains in space proved irresistible. So the development of the fireplace became one of the great breakthroughs in domestic history: they allowed people to lay boards across the beams and create a whole new world upstairs.

Bill Bryson

#73. Here was a guy who had taken much of the Silicon Valley ethic behind moving quickly and running organizations free of bureaucratic hierarchies and applied it to improving big, fantastic machines and chasing things that had the potential to be real breakthroughs we'd been missing.

Ashlee Vance

#74. When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Theodore Zeldin

#75. Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.

Dalai Lama

#76. It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Hanif Kureishi

#77. All significant breakthroughs are break -"withs" old ways of thinking.

Thomas Kuhn

#78. If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

David Graeber

#79. Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.

Steven Weinberg

#80. Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

George E. Brown Jr.

#81. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

Thomas L. Friedman

#82. [ ... ] the biggest failures typically come before the biggest breakthroughs. That no matter what, I should never get discouraged. Learn from my mistakes and all will be well.

Joelle Charbonneau

#83. We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough ... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

Bill Gates

#84. The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Rem Koolhaas

#85. I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.

Pat Cadigan

#86. Flow tends to be the psychic signature of world-class performance and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs,

Steven Kotler

#87. I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities.

DMX

#88. Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

Burt Rutan

#89. I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.

Peter Thiel

#90. The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Alex Steffen

#91. To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

Rajneesh

#92. And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

Chris Bohjalian

#93. The secret of financial breakthroughs: Pay ten percent of any income you receive to God(tithe)and saving ten percent of your income as a payment for yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's
Technology

Dan Brown

#95. All the breakthroughs and miracles you need are in people

Sunday Adelaja

#96. If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs

Cynthia Tucker

#97. Herpes B is a very rare infection in humans but a nasty one, with a case fatality rate of almost 70 percent among those few dozen people infected during the twentieth century (before recent breakthroughs in antiviral pharmaceutics) and almost 50 percent even since then. When

David Quammen

#98. We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

Doug Dawson

#99. I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#100. As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

Peter Diamandis