Top 130 Breakthroughs Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Critical thinking is what leads to the next breakthroughs in any area.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science.

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.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

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

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

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

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.

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

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?

I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I've always been nerdy about that.

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

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

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.

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

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

That's the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals.

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

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

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

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

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

My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.

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.

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

In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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

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

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

I am betting on Google's team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.

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.

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

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.