Quotes About Progress

I've done quite a lot of growing up in public, which has been tricky at times.

I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.

A kid actor to an adult actor is a tricky one.

It is such a tricky transition between education and work.

In karate, as your skill level increases, your instructor presents you with the next belt. But in poker, only you can decide when it's time to graduate to the next level. That's a tricky proposition for some players because it's difficult to assess your own progress.

Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.

Sequels are always tricky.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

When I first started in Formula 1, I tried to ignore the fact I was the first black guy ever to race in the sport. But, as I've got older, I've really started to appreciate the implications.

I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.

People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.

I tried to - I wanted to work at Blockbuster.

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these guys and what I wanted to capture, so I tried to work backward from there and figure it out. Trial and error. Hopefully I got a little bit better at it.

When you talk about goals, you look at your team last year and you want to move the meter a little bit. You don't want to go back and be the same team that you were last year, so we have tried to get better in some ways.

I certainly tried to make the House a more open and effective place, and I believe I succeeded.