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• 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

  Ocean, Mars, Rockets

  «Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will» by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2012.

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• 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

  Couple, Guitar, Bending

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• I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Break Through, People

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• The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn't even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research... New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children.

  John Cairns

  Children, Cancer, Men

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• What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough.... IF you understand God's grace

  Carl Lentz

  Often Is, Grace, Breakdown

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• Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Christian, Breakup, Happened

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

  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  Thinking, Critical Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mental Illness, Illness, Breakdown

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

  Rem Koolhaas

  Acceptance, Reality, Certain

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• YOU are on the verge of complete breakthrough in every area of your life. Spiritually, Financially, and Relationally God has shown me that this is a season of victory for His people. As I went deeper in the Spirit the Lord revealed that before the breakthrough comes, certain things must be dealt with. Specifically, there must be a complete defeat of your enemies!

  Paula White

  People, Enemy, Victory

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• We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

  Dane Cook

  Break Through, Moments, Rebirth

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• 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

  Life Changing, Discovery, Broken

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• For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.

  Conan O'Brien

  Fda, Vegetables, Firsts

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• I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Persistence

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• I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.

  Mariah Carey

  Fighting, Rocks, Perfect

  The Interview magazine, www.irishexaminer.com.

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

  Burt Rutan

  Smart, People, Wacky

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• 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

  Prayer, Blessing, Holiness

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• You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it's true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough.

  Surya Das

  Light, Darkness, Doubt

  Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway

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• 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

  People, World, Crafts

  "What Drives You? 10 Top Tech Mavericks tell us what drives them and why". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, I was introduced to Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings.

  Ragnar Kjartansson

  Impact, Talking, Feminist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I can feel it in my own, where I sometimes feel like I don’t even care if it’s going to work, I can’t take more change. O.K., Google, O.K., Twitter—but Airbnb? People staying in each other’s houses without there being a lot of axe murders?

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Thinking, Nuts

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• Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.

  Pamela McCorduck

  Technology, Information, Computer

  Pamela McCorduck (1985). “The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• 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

  Science, Two, Numbers

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• And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... [which] was of more importance than our original purpose.

  Cesar Milstein

  Success, Science, Cells

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• Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

  James D. Watson

  Thinking, Break Through, Preoccupation

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