Quotes About Progress

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.

I think there's a really fine line between innovating and being gimmicky, and we're trying to stay on the proper side of that.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

You never finish learning.

You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's.

Eventually, I want to finish my degree.

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.

You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well.

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.