Quotes About Progress

Rapping works like a sport... the more you do it, the better you get at it.

I secured Big Jam through my buzz in the city. My name got bigger and bigger throughout my 1st year of rapping.

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just to get people's attention around the city, to make me a little show money. But then music became my passion, it got real serious.

I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.

Growing up, a black face on TV was really rare.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.

Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.

It's very rare that we play a gig and we all come off and say 'That was great, I had a great time!' There's always someone that's had a bad time. So the goal is always to achieve the next level of performing the piece that you've written. You're looking for something that you haven't even captured on the album.

When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving.

The path to equality is rarely easy.

Change is rarely comfortable.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.