Quotes About Progress

When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.

I did a postgrad at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Trinity River Vision is huge for Fort Worth.

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

'Pose' has basically been a trip for everyone. We're all in different phases of our individual evolutions, but we've embarked on the journey together.

You've got to take each step as it comes - you can't think about 20 steps away because it will distract you and trip you up.

My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot, and then moving on to writing full prose on the tiny QWERTY keyboard of my iPaq smartphone. I got so fast that I was averaging 400 words during the 35 minutes or so I spent on the subway each way, or 800 words round trip.

If you're running a race, and you're looking at the lane to your right or your left, you're gonna trip instead of... focusing forward.

The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip about that because I've been making movies for 35 years, and I've played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can't be on here talking about, 'They don't give us enough roles' and diversity.

Whenever I get in a car and I'm going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.

If you sit there and have that mentality of 'triple down on what you're good at,' you're never going to grow. You're always going to stay the same.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

To think how far I've come from wrestling in little Adelaide, South Australia, to now having Triple H say nice words about me and putting me over everyone is wild.

I come from an era when if you are told that you need a triple heart bypass it sounds pretty terminal. But I think it's quite a normal operation these days.

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.

Once I landed the triple Salchow, I put it in the program. First landed triple toe, straight into the program. That's what I did with my quad suite.

Although there's a stigma that you learn only until a certain point, and then you just maintain, for me to learn the triple axel at 24 goes to show that anything's possible.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

We may get a few trips but it is the coming generation of women who really will perform in outer space.

A little bit about my family: We didn't really come from much, and we didn't take family trips to California, so my first trip to California was actually my first day of school.

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.