Quotes About Progress

It's been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come

A change is gonna come.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't mean we will change.

The challenge is, we can want to change, we can even know we need to change, but that doesn't necessarily mean we will change.

Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist's ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later

a square dance might start innocent, but it sure don't take long to cut off the corners.

Everyone scoffs at a pioneer. Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out. You can bet his friends never let him live that down. And yet, a million years later, nobody thinks anything of drinking cow juice.

Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. Of

We use certain authors at certain times of our lives, and we may never go back to them again.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1 000 computers.

A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.

People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there.