Quotes About Progress

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

I wanted to set the standard, do the best job possible so that other people would be comfortable with African-Americans flying in space and African-Americans would be proud of being participants in the space program.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it's really about the shows and seeing them grow.

I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.

When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.

It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave and half-free back in the 1800s.

The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn't even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.

2017 was crazy when I made the 'Freshman' cover 'cause I looked up to it, and I really wanted to be in it. It was motivation for me after that: I kept on going, and I grinded.

If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.

When I was at Watford I was very greedy. I just wanted to show off my skills.

Once you mature you start wanting different things out of life and wanting different things for yourself.

The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

I don't think I've ever made something that I'm totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

Regardless where I am in life or how much money I got, I still enjoy it, but I grind it out. I continue wanting to do more, wanting to be better and achieve more.

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.