Quotes about drumbeat (14 Quotes)


    Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two lows of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

    Any effort to explain Iraq as 'We are on track and making progress' is nonsense, ... The left has a constant drumbeat that this is Vietnam and a bottomless pit. The daily and weekly casualties leave people feeling that things aren't going well.

    Investment banking continues to be pretty strong pretty much for all these players. Goldman yesterday talked about a record backlog and I think that would also be true for Lehman. Morgan Stanley will be reporting tomorrow. That's been a pretty steady drumbeat. Underwriting activity was a little slower. Fixed income business has been picking up with the Federal Reserve seeming to go on hold.

    Theirs is the music of the heart of the world, ... Listen to the drumbeat of our Native brothers and sisters because they will connect us to our own hearts, hearts that long for peace. No more blood for oil.

    There is a drumbeat every day that's building. The question of whether Wal-Mart is good for America is being pushed to the forefront of a national debate.


    There's lots of signs of the growing drumbeat for reform. We think there is a bipartisan majority with presidential leadership that can actually get across the finish line this session.

    It's just one more thing that people get to hear about the speaker in a bad light. It just keeps a constant type of drumbeat alive, and keeps his name in the public's consciousness.


    I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

    Steelcase's dedication to protecting and preserving the environment serves as a steady drumbeat throughout the company, and greatly influences what products are created, how they are created and why. Being recognized by the EPA is an honor and a testament to Steelcase's ability to see the big picture by looking beyond the creation of office furniture to the creation of a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable environment for generations to come.

    ENJOY YOUR LIFE TURN OFF THE TV The image of America that comes to us in daily news broadcasts is a grim one, problems (real and faked), heartache, dysfunction and hardship. That is simply the nature of television news crisis after crisis, a drumbeat of constant negativism. Millions upon millions of people in 'real' America are enjoying the good things the nation has to offer have come to feel that their positive experiences are somehow the exception. The vast majority enjoy the best country in the history of the world. As an experiment, try going a month without watching any news. Don't watch the evening news, don't watch local news, don't watch political discussions. You will have a much more positive outlook about yourself and about America.

    If you push back the clock 25 years, a family enterprise could take the heat. But these days, if the enterprise is genuinely failing, the drumbeat that the board of directors will feel to bring in outside management will become irresistible.

    It is a weekly, and now daily, drumbeat of rollbacks of hard-fought and hard-won progress to protect the air and the water and the wilderness and the environment of this country, ... This is the most alarming rollback in environmental efforts that we have ever seen.




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