Quotes About Progress

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.

One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.

As technology advances, the rendering time remains constant.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.

The more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone will expand.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"