Quotes About Progress

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.

The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

In football two days is a long time and a week is a very long time.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

There is a time for everything and you do different things at different ages.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

Each time I think I've reached a limit....there is a door....it opens....and the limit is gone.

While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

Pause and remember - If you just keep moving forward, everything you need will show up for you at the perfect time.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.