Quotes About Progress

I have justified why I wanted to come to Manchester City because I have won trophies and improved.

I am certainly proud to add 'Korra' to the pantheon of TV characters, which is perpetually sorely lacking in multifaceted female characters who aren't sidekicks, subordinates or mere trophies for male characters.

The best success, for me, is not one trophy. It's not harmony. It's when players improve and grow.

You grow when there are trophies in your trophy cabinet. I hope to achieve that here in Naples.

Obviously, you want to win a trophy and finish as high up the table as possible. But it's important to focus game-by-game.

The aim every season is to challenge for the top four and try to win a trophy.

When I came to Under-19, I played a lot of cricket and got a lot of experience. Then India A as well, and Ranji Trophy - it just keeps going on.

When I won my first trophy, it was just a feeling of 'we want more.'

I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Machines can do things cheaper and better. We're very used to that in banking, for example. ATM machines are better than tellers if you want a simple transaction. They're faster, they're less trouble, they're more reliable, so they put tellers out of work.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

When you inherit a franchise that won one playoff game in the last 10 years, you've inherited a troubled franchise.

I want to make the point that, even though we had a troubled experience, we moved on from that. I moved on from that, to become the first Black congressman, a cabinet secretary. I returned to Mississippi, and I'm now running for the U.S. Senate.