Top 100 The Cutting Edge Quotes

#1. There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change.

Jennifer Granholm

#2. I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.

Diane Paulus

#3. The mistake ... was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.

Frank Partnoy

#4. It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.

Peter Diamandis

#5. His office was on the third floor of the Humanities & Social Sciences Building, just down the hall from the interview room. On the office door was a Peanuts cartoon of Lucy in the psychiatrist's booth with the little DOCTOR is IN sign. Professor Mitchell, a man on the cutting edge of humor.

Rick Riordan

#6. We're all whirling merrily through the void on a dying planet, and gay people are just doing their usual number, being shamelessly trendy as always. Right out in front on the cutting edge of death.

Lawrence Block

#7. The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Michael Oxley

#8. Just selfishly, I wanted to be associated with something as synonymous with cool and cutting edge and artistic as CBGB. People are aware of that, at least, even if nothing else. That's something to be proud of, to be a small part of the association with something like that.

Johnny Galecki

#9. America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.

Ronald Reagan

#10. A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .

James Rollins

#11. I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

Doseone

#12. 'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available in a variety of platforms and written by an editorial staff known for its distinctive and discerning style and wit.

Jared Kushner

#13. Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Phyllis Schlafly

#14. Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

Arianna Huffington

#15. Anything that is excellent or praiseworthy stands moment by moment on the cutting edge and must be constantly fought for. Well placed priorities always sit on the edge.

Ross Perot

#16. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Jacob Bronowski

#17. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

Salman Rushdie

#18. When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge.

Jay Inslee

#19. I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

Moshe Safdie

#20. When you think about it, caring for patients is 99 percent information and 1 percent intervention, so it's clear that with or without genomics, the paradigm is shifting. Bioinformatics brings a cutting edge capacity to healthcare.

Christopher G. Chute

#21. The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Edward R. Murrow

#22. In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

Sloane Crosley

#23. Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge.

P.D. James

#24. The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#25. Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

Ken Livingstone

#26. It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.

Susan Lim

#27. The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

Caleb Cushing

#28. Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.

Michael K. Powell

#29. I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Chris Kirkpatrick

#30. Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

Darren Aronofsky

#31. You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

Terence McKenna

#32. With the willingness of Time-Life and a team of historians, forensic anthropologists, photographic experts, and cutting edge technology, the means are at hand to recognize the participants in Alfred Eisenstaedt's beloved photograph.

Lawrence Verria

#33. The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?

Daniel H. Wilson

#34. The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

Charlie Daniels

#35. I'm very into the military and police stuff. Gear and technical gear is something that's changing every day and every day you're trying to be on the cutting edge and improve your stuff more and more because your life depends on it. And so, the guns and the gears are changing constantly.

Steven Seagal

#36. The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

Terence McKenna

#37. I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

Geraldine Ferraro

#38. The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge.

Ellen Gallagher

#39. Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.

John O'Donohue

#40. We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.

Martin McGuinness

#41. The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

Joe Lieberman

#42. It is important to have a reliable and substantive publication such as World Screen available as a source for information. The magazine's reporting is always on the cutting edge of the global television business.

Jeffrey Bewkes

#43. Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.

Alex Honnold

#44. WE'RE ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF REALITY ITSELF. RIGHT WHERE IT TURNS INTO A DREAM

Denis Johnson

#45. Principles are like sheaths. It doesn't have the sharp edge to cut something, but it can cover that sharp edge. So that no one gets hurt.

Choi Woo-seok

#46. The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Kim Jong-un

#47. I'm always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new thing.

David Nevins

#48. To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.

Mario Batali

#49. How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We are simply going back to a vintage form of worship which has been around for as long as the church has been in existence.

Dan Kimball

#50. The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship.

Stephen K. Hayes

#51. Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

James Sallis

#52. I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it.

David Foster Wallace

#53. Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

Jerome Bruner

#54. The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

Phil Strongman

#55. If we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#56. I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#57. I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.

Elizabeth May

#58. Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

Mary Astor

#59. It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Margaret Atwood

#60. You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

Ronald Reagan

#61. Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

Ray Kurzweil

#62. People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

Wes Craven

#63. To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings.

Jon Oringer

#64. New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.

Carter Burwell

#65. Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.

David Blunkett

#66. The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.

Les Claypool

#67. It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

Lynn Samuels

#68. What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

Nicholas Negroponte

#69. Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.

George Clooney

#70. Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

Toby Stephens

#71. In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

Adrienne Rich

#72. The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

John Spencer

#73. We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

Warren Buffett

#74. The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out.

Alan Greenspan

#75. This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.

Barack Obama

#76. Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Henry Ford

#77. New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

Robert Kahn

#78. Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

Alexander McCall Smith

#79. It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

Robert Patrick

#80. It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

William J. Clinton

#81. Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.

Bill Maher

#82. The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished.

Ron Kaufman

#83. I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

Jude Law

#84. Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.

Tom Freston

#85. Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

Bill Gates

#86. Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

Uday Kotak

#87. The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

Robert Harris

#88. Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

David Korten

#89. The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

Steve McVey

#90. I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.

Dan Rather

#91. I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

Herbie Hancock

#92. That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties.

Clark Johnson

#93. The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

Kobe Bryant

#94. It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

Faye Dunaway

#95. Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#96. There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

Harvey MacKay

#97. You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.

Helen Gurley Brown

#98. The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Paul Goldberger

#99. The problem with doing cutting edge research is that the masses think that you are nuts!

Steven Magee

#100. If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow ... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.

Madeline Hunter

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