Quotes About Progress

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

It's a great time to be alive and be a computer weenie.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

If you feel overwhelmed, you may be trying to achieve too much at once. Step back and look at your goals. If you're doing too much, it's time to reprioritize.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don't wait for a convenient time. It can't be overemphasized.

For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.