39 Modernization Quotes On Success In Life
These modernization quotes will inspire you. Modernization, the process of adapting something to modern needs or habits.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging modernization quotes, modernization sayings, and modernization proverbs.
Best Modernization Quotes
- “The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.” ~ Lawrence Summers
- “Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.” ~ Major Owens
- “It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.” ~ John Sununu
- “I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization” ~ Peter L. Berger
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“The Saudi government’s denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia’s economic development, modernization and prosperity.” ~ Barbara Boxer
- “The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.” ~ Charles Bass
- “As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.” ~ Sue Kelly
- “Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.” ~ Samuel Wilson
- “As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.” ~ Richard Holbrooke
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“When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.” ~ Patrick Bergin
- “When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you’ve got tradition, and on the other hand you’ve got change; in many people’s mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I’m a big tradition guy.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.” ~ Dmitry Medvedev
- “If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in sixteenth-century Spain, which is already going through secularization, industrialization, modernization. He goes out to kill a giant, and instead he collides with this huge windmill and injures himself and also damages the windmill. I think that’s a metaphor for the collisions we all have over time, as our ideas of ourselves get out of synch with the historical moment.” ~ Elif Batuman
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“[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.” ~ Manmohan Singh
- “At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.” ~ Hu Jintao
- “[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set the processes of modernization in motion. Education brought not only the idea of equality but also another belief which we used to take for granted in the West-the idea of progress, the idea that science and technology can be used to better human conditions. In ancient society, men tended to believe themselves fortunate if tomorrow was not worse than today and anyway, there was little they could do about it.” ~ Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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“Modernization means Westernization.” ~ Camille Paglia
- “We will start by modernizing our cruisers to provide the ballistic missile defense capability our nation needs. This will cost around $220 million per modernization as we seek to modernize a significant portion of these 22 ships. It will also mean jobs for our country.” ~ Donald Trump
- “These new investments in cyber security and the modernization of our military will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. It’s what we have to do. America must be the world’s dominant technological powerhouse of the twenty-first century, and young Americans – including in our inner cities – should get these new jobs!” ~ Donald Trump
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“Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.” ~ Tom Stoppard
- “We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.” ~ Daisaku Ikeda
- “The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.” ~ Youssou N’Dour
- “I’m a low-tech man in a high-tech world.” ~ Phil Robertson
- “If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.” ~ Alain Juppe
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“I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.” ~ Manmohan Singh
- “Some have become more critical than others; for example, the submarines. And that’s the Ohio Class submarine that needs to be modernized. The air component also needs to be modernized. The B-52, as someone earlier pointed out, is an outdated model that was flown by the grandparents of people that are flying it now. And we need a serious modernization program as well on our silo-launched missiles. All three are critical for the defense of the country.” ~ Marco Rubio
- “I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize.” ~ Shai Agassi
- “Pentagon’s readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War and a desire by the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) to protect its comfortable life style in a world that is changing rapidly.” ~ Franklin C. Spinney
- “I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you’ll excuse the clinical expression.” ~ Zalmay Khalilzad
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“Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.” ~ Jiang Zemin
- “We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Expansion and modernization of the nation’s productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.” ~ C. Vann Woodward
- “America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power … America’s preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way.” ~ Richard Barnet
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“In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.” ~ Zheng Bijian
- “My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.” ~ Charles Stross
- “It’s wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.” ~ Alvaro de Vasconcelos
- “I think we have started accelerating over the past years. It’s a modernization of NATO. It’s at air, it’s at sea, it’s undersea, it’s in cyber. Estonia in 2007, hit by Russian cyber-attacks. So what you see there with those exercises are critical.” ~ Michael Leiter
- “[Donald Trump] supports the modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, while complaining about budget expenditures. He presumably intends to go forward with the $1 trillion nuclear modernization plan.” ~ David Krieger
