Quotes About Progress

Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

My mentality is that no matter how good or bad the previous play was, move on to the next one.

I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.

I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.

If you look at previous generations, even where they didn't open up power, you look at an early Xbox 360 or early PlayStation 3 games and compare those to the ones that came at the end. The developers are just getting better. So time is far more important than opening up a little bit here or there, though it does all help.

You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.

You learn that you can't take what's happened in the previous years for granted.

My competition is always with my previous song. Each time I start working on a new track, I try to make it better than my last one.

My goal is that my films should at least match up to my previous films if not be more.

I get very competitive with myself and always look to better myself from my previous projects. I have learned that it's important to work on the craft than the project.

Maybe it's like this: If you haven't done all that much right in the previous season, than perhaps you are more open to change.

If you cannot fulfill the aspirations of people, what is the difference between you and the previous government?

Every player should look to build on the previous season and do everything they can to make themselves a better player than they were the previous year.

I don't take the pressure that your next thing has to be bigger than the previous one.

Every fight since I lost in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, every step for me is very important. Every fight becomes harder for me, more important for me than the previous fight.

Whatever work you do, it should always be better than your previous one. You should put effort on yourself.

All early entrepreneurs fall prey to the same problem, which is everyone believes that if you are super intense in the beginning, work long hours, that you can create something quickly and that entrepreneurship is almost something that happens overnight.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.

In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.