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While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. -- Mike Pence
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. -- Bill Frist
Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes. -- Rosalia de Castro
Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me. -- Jack W. Hayford
Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed -- Steve Jobs
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating -- Ben Horowitz
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. -- Rajneesh
It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. -- Roger Wicker
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. -- Pat Riley
When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. -- Joyce Meyer
The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album. -- Faith Hill
Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's. -- Mort Kondracke
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. -- Peter Diamandis
Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough! -- T. B. Joshua
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
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
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
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. -- Thomas Cech
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
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
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
The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life. -- Yuri Milner
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it. -- Brandon Routh
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
We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. -- Dane Cook
Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged. -- Tony Evans
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough. -- Stephen Lewis
The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together. -- Richard Hamming
As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing! -- T. B. Joshua
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success. -- Joyce Meyer
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. -- Thomas Cech
As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough. -- Tony Verna
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
Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. -- Naveen Jain
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
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
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. -- Erwin Rommel
When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense. -- Burt Rutan
For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries. -- Bob Inglis
It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. -- Michael Moritz
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. -- Bill Gates
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
Throughout my career, as both a physician and a scientist, I have drawn inspiration from Merck's unwavering commitment to scientific excellence. Over time, this commitment has brought forth an unparalleled number of breakthrough medicines and vaccines that improve the lives of patients around the world. -- Roger M. Perlmutter
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough. -- Marissa Mayer
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
The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone. -- Steve Jobs
Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts. -- Michael Dell
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. -- A. J. Liebling
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption. -- Rex Tillerson
I actually don't pay a lot of attention to the movie 'industry'... I just do the work when I get it. I never considered anything I was in, or did, as a possible breakthrough for me. I have advised other actors not to expect anything. Expecting a 'breakthrough' is almost an automatic for sure 'let down' or heartbreak. -- Mark Margolis
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else. -- Steven Johnson
So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things. -- Mary J. Blige
Any breakdown is a breakthrough. -- Marshall McLuhan
There is no breakthrough without a breakdown. -- Tony Robbins
Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough. -- Peter Jackson
A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. -- Bill Gates
The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. -- Peter Diamandis
You have to push through every difficulty to have a breakthrough. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them. -- Marc Andreessen
A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter -- Caroline Myss
In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough! -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough. -- Terrell Owens
There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products. -- John Sculley
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. -- Peter Singer
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. -- Pankaj Mishra
Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration. -- Brian Houston
It takes grace to breakthrough to heaven while it takes faith to breakthrough on earth. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain. -- Shirley MacLaine
What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough.... IF you understand God's grace -- Carl Lentz
Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem. -- Bill Johnson
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art. -- Penn Jillette
All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has... -- Kanye West
Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer -- John C. Maxwell
To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think. -- Newt Gingrich
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. -- Bill Gates
Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions. -- Frans Johansson
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking. -- Stephen Covey
I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life. -- Mike Evans
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. -- James D. Watson
Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough! -- Brian Houston
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. -- Terence McKenna
After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. -- Barack Obama
When your life is crazy and chaotic don't despair, it has to be this way before a breakthrough -- Nancy Ebrahim
Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal. -- Van Jones
Every time I've crossed to a new level of film acting, the film has been a breakthrough project. -- Anupam Kher
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation, -- Vijay Govindarajan
You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit! -- Joyce Meyer
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality. -- Jean Cocteau
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers. -- Steve Martin
For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after. -- Questlove
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. -- Harold S. Kushner
I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that. -- Matthew Rhys
The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them. -- Darren Hardy
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
If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough. -- Sylvester Stallone
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt. -- Thomas Friedman
Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure. -- Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough. -- John Cleese
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now! -- Joyce Meyer
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it. -- Ray Kurzweil
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
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas. -- John Gerzema
Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival. -- Steve Camp
I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment -- Stedman Graham
What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world. -- Mike McCue
I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'. -- Ronald Graham
To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning. -- Deepak Chopra

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