Quotes About Progress

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn't been assassinated.

I've picked up a lot of injuries, and there's been games when I've looked back and watched and thought, 'I could have done this better,' 'I could have done that better.'

I was picked by Pradeep Sarkar for a huge campaign called 'Bharat Nirman' and he infused a lot of confidence in me and from thereon my journey started.

I made many mistakes and I also learnt a lot of lessons. Whatever I picked up from my mistakes is helping me a lot ever since.

Everyone gives 'Picket Fences' credit for being so willing to delve into issues that now would be no big deal. But it was then. It was ahead of its time.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

Before, sometimes if the ball was played over my head I wouldn't know where I was but now I feel a lot more comfortable. Sometimes I would be going forward when it really wasn't the right time to go too, but now I'm picking my moments better.

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.

When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.

Just having the economy picking up doesn't mean that we will get through or that we will turn the chapter on many of the problems that we see ahead of us.

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Maybe at the end of the day, instead of a neighbor picking you up, a robot picks you up.

I can't go back and change how many tackles I had, how many picks. What I've done is what I've done.

When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I'd dunk or it'd be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

I did 'Dirty Picture' when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.