Quotes About Progress

I used to have a big issue - one - identifying how I feel and being like, 'I feel this way.' Over the years, I've tried to work on that.

Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws.

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Every film tries to advance the state of the art, at least a little bit. Brand new techniques? A lot of them are just evolutionary: we're just building on something that's like something we've done before and just trying to do it a little bit better or make it a little bit more realistic.

I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

Every now and then, someone comes along - we used to call it 'New Jack' - tries to do something new, tries to take all the credit, without acknowledging the past.

I work with amazing organisations: I work with I'm A Performer With Disability, and I work with a clinic which tries to get opportunities for people with disabilities to work in the film and TV industry, and we're making strides, and they're making strides.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really think that what we try and do is different.

It's an amazing feeling when I have a customer who tries a leg on and is able to go snowboarding for the first time.

Everyone has changed, haven't they? Everyone tries to get better; everyone tries to grow.

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

Every state tries to attract more investment for its growth.

Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.

I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.