Quotes About Progress

We have learned from history that change is never easy, that it usually doesn't look pretty, especially in today's politically-charged environment where intent and actions can readily be misconstrued and judged.

We've given up the idea that a guitar must always and everywhere be readily available just because we're a band.

When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

The future of the U.N. will be determined by its readiness to change and adapt.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

Reading equals hope times change.

I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in life, whatever it is you do.

Every successful business professional I know is constantly learning, reading, growing in their field.

I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.

You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.

I feel like I'm making the right plays and right reads each and every night, so if I keep doing that the assists are going to come.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

I'm hungry. I'm ready to grow.

Every off-season you look at what you can improve on. So you come in for the new season fresh and ready to go again.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.

I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

I think I'm ready for the success I'm having.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.