Quotes About Progress

I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

I didn't do anything but write for six months after I got my publishing deal. That was just trying to get better and figure out my sound and the way I like to do it.

The sport has come on - we do not just play in pubs any more and there are massive international competitions.

Have you noticed that almost all the change in the world goes to women? When was the last time you had a five pence piece? Exactly. In a Christmas pudding. All the rest of it is in women's handbags.

The common goals of Puerto Rico and the United States have always been for the benefit of both.

You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move.

If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.

I always believed if you worked honestly and pulled for the team, you could keep moving up. So, that's what I did.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.