Maggie Hassan Quotes

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

A new era doesn't come from nothing. New thoughts, values and methods will be established after overcoming various hurdles on the way.

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

We're on the verge of all things new.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

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.

There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.