Quotes About Progress

I think we are really in touch with what's going on around us in the world of music, trying to push the bar forward and try new and exciting things that our fans can react to.

The way you react to each challenge forms who you become.

The important thing is to react well to your mistakes.

Once '0 to 100' happened, it sort of spun this chain reaction - really the first big record that I was a part of. It was a big, life-changing thing for me.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

I get commercial acclaim because of critical acclaim and it is a chain reaction.

Everything is a reaction.

Quite frankly, I talk about the fact that I'm a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do, it gets huge reaction, and media reacts, and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I'm a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction to that when I say it, because that's where we want to get to.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.

Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.

My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.

It just goes to show how much the women's game has improved over the years: there are some outstanding goalkeepers capable of fantastic reaction saves.

During my second year at Madrid, Jose Mourinho gave me a kick up the backside. I wasn't doing well, I wasn't managing to do what he wanted me to out on the pitch. So he chided me, saying: 'Why don't you run in training?' My first reaction was to mutter, 'Oh come on... ' But I knew he was right, I had more to give.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

'Ebony' is very inspirational and aspirational to its readers.

I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.