Quotes About Progress

I don't think I've ever really fitted into the industry and the scene. I feel like I've always been on the cusp.

I need to get better as a player, I need to get fitter, and I need to get better on the mental side. It's exciting for me, because there's so much I could do better. I don't feel like I've really maxed out any shot. People talk about my serve, but I think that can even get better.

I think it's a long-time process when you are trying to get fitter and fitter.

You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.

People work out so hard for even 10 years and still aren't able to achieve the body they wish for. But luckily, my body type helped me lose weight really fast, and I became fitter.

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

Feeling your clothes fitting better is going to make you feel better.

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

When something is so damaged or something is just not right, you can't fix it in a moment. The only thing is time.

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn't know how to fix them, and so they lived with them.

You want to encourage yourself to take risks. If you make a mistake trying to do something, you can fix it later.

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

Barack Obama's journey to the White House has impressed and inspired the entire world.

I know it may be hard to imagine given how broken and gridlocked our politics truly are, but from the White House to, yes, Congress, the government is filled with hard-working, idealistic public servants working incredibly hard on tough issues, trying to make people's lives better and move the country, and our world, forward.

In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.

As a man of colour, I've spent my life asking people to see me for who I am. With Obama in the White House, it feels like people have finally caught up to where I've been most of my life.

During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans desperate for the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House to win the nomination.

As Ronald Reagan demonstrated, it is still possible to progress if not from a log cabin at least from obscurity to the White House. It is also rare.