Quotes About Progress

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

When we think about big records, a lot of producers are thinking of how to make it as standard as possible. I think those days are gone. I think you have to surprise the audience in 2015.

I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise.

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

I just surprise myself every day.

It's hard to go from good to great. You go from one to seven by eliminating stupid things. Let's not have 12 penalties in a game. And you surprise some people. When you're a seven-win team, everyone sees you coming.

Since we began Daft Punk we go from surprise to surprise.

Confidence, to me, is just pushing yourself a little bit further than you think you can go, and you'll always surprise yourself.

I will do films that will satisfy me and surprise the audience into saying, 'look where Rajpal started from and where has he reached today.'

I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.

The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

I was really excited to land my first 1080. But I was surprised that it came a lot easier than I thought it would.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

There's definitely a list of things I'd like to do. But there's been a lot of things I hadn't even thought would have been possible to do that I'd been able to do, so I think I'll surprise myself and keep breaking that glass ceiling to see what's next. Hopefully people get surprised - that's my main goal.

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound.

I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going.

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

In 2025, don't be surprised if a Chinese flag is placed on the moon.