#advance

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#because #been #diet #different #disease

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. ↗

— Larry Page

#around #ask #been #doing #driven

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#already #am #art #because #boring

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#affluence #ancient #comfort #culture #forced

As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#poverty #rises #society #standard

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#against #along #back #creeping #far

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#apprehension #before #days #evident #few

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#back #before #dance #go #least

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. ↗

— Quintilian

#boy #critical #develops #faculty #gives